Re:‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger...
by danShumway on Monday May 01, 2023 @09:50PM
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I don't mean it's easy to do, I mean they're doing it. Google is literally announcing a cloud service that uses an LLM to analyze if code snippets are safe. This is an obviously bad idea and it's not theoretical, it already exists.
I don't necessarily disagree that it was a leap, but it's a leap we've taken now.
Re:‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger...
by zmmmmm on Monday May 01, 2023 @10:43PM
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I think I mostly am agreeing with you but I see it through a liability lens.
When Google's cloud service to analyze code snippets screws up, nothing in the ToU should alleviate Google from the responsibility they should rightly bear if they ship a system with known and understood flaws that are not clearly portrayed to the user (and I don't mean buried in the middle of a paragraph in page 36 of the ToU).
If forcing Google to accept liability kills the service dead then good - it's probably the right thing until they can reach an acceptable level of safety that they are willing to accept the resultant risk.
What concerns me most is the outsourcing of liability going on. Which is already what OpenAI is largely doing - outsourcing Microsoft's liability for releasing this tech into the wild to a company that can afford to write off the legal risk.
Now OpenAI is outsourcing the legal risk for what ChatGPT does to plugin developers. So the first chatbot that convinces someone to mass murder their class mates will at worst be sucking compensation out of some indie developer with no assets instead of OpenAI, let alone Microsoft.
If we get the model for liability right, all these problems solve themselves. Yes it will shut down certain exploitations of technology but it won't shut down the more general harmless use which is important for us to engage in to understand and improve the tech.