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Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by darkwater on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @03:18AM (#38376461)
> But what it's being interpreted as is more like "be excessively prudish and politically correct at all times" -- which I doubt was ever really anyone's main concern with AGI.

Fast forward 5-10 years, someone will say: "LLM were the worst thing we developed because they made us more stupid and permitted politicians to control even more the public opinion in a subtle way.

Just like tech/HN bubble started saying a few years ago about social networks (which were praised as revolutionary 15 years ago).

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Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by didntcheck on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @04:05AM (#38376836)
And it's amazing how many people you can get to cheer it on if you brand it as "combating dangerous misinformation". It seems people never learn the lesson that putting faith in one group of people to decree what's "truth" or "ethical" is almost always a bad idea, even when (you think) it's your "side"
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Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by mlrtime on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @06:15AM (#38377736)
Can this be compared to "Think of the children" responses to other technologoy advances that certain groups want to slow down or prohibit?
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Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by fallingknife on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @06:30AM (#38377848)
Why would anyone say that? The last 30 years of tech have given them less and less control. Why would LLMs be any different?
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Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by dnissley on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @09:09AM (#38379348)
Absolutely, assuming LLMs are still around in a similar form by that time.

I disagree on the particulars. Will it be for the reason that you mention? I really am not sure -- I do feel confident though that the argument will be just as ideological and incoherent as the ones people make about social media today.

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Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by unethical_ban on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @10:38AM (#38380677)
I'm already saying that.

The toothpaste is out of the tube, but this tech will radically change the world.

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Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by Cacti on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @05:36PM (#38386158)
Your average HNer is only here because of the money. Willful blindness and ignorance is incredibly common.
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