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Re:French AI startup Mistral releases ‘unmoderated’ chatbot ... by sebzim4500 on Sunday October 01, 2023 @06:48AM (#37724646)
In my experience the ex risk people understand that using science fiction examples makes a weak argument, and avoid them entirely.

It is the other people who use the age-old argument of "something like what you are describing happened in a piece of fiction, therefore it could never happen in real life".

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Re:French AI startup Mistral releases ‘unmoderated’ chatbot ... by dragonwriter on Sunday October 01, 2023 @05:31PM (#37731059)
> In my experience the ex risk people understand that using science fiction examples makes a weak argument, and avoid them entirely.

Roko's Basilisk is a weaker argument than most analogy-to-scifi arguments, because the assumptions underpinning most scifi used in such arguments are less implausiable than those underlying the Basilisk.

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Re:French AI startup Mistral releases ‘unmoderated’ chatbot ... by sebzim4500 on Sunday October 01, 2023 @05:39PM (#37731138)
True but I haven't heard anyone unironically talk about Roku's Basilisk in years.
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