The parents know the knife can be used to stab people. It’s a dangerous implement, and people are killed with knives all the time. e: thus most parents are careful with kids and knives.
LLMs aren’t sold as weapons, or even as tools that can be used as weapons. They’re sold as totally benign tools that can’t reasonably be considered dangerous.
That’s the difference. If you’re paying especially close attention, you may potentially understand they can be dangerous, but most people are just buying a coffee maker.
Still, drugstore poison would be not only easier but more effective, slip something into his coffee. He’s a notorious womaniser – have a beautiful girl roofie him in public, at a street cafe. Easy.
Trying to set up a car accident would be stupid. And yes, they’re stupid, but if you had to kill someone for $100, would you try to engineer a car accident or would you roofie him, a guy with known heart issues?
I think you’re just noticing now. This continually happens as companies get sued for harming people, and they adjust to not get sued.
TOS are always updated due to lawsuits, since companies always try to grab the maximum profit irrespective of the human cost, until people sue them. That’s always been the case.
e: sometimes products are straight-up pulled from the market for killing people. Look up videos of old products that are illegal now, like uranium in child’s chemistry sets or lawn darts.
(e: Oh, wait, I was thinking of the political ecology, not making ecology political. I still agree with you, though. Perhaps slightly less enthusiastically.)
Just support social programmes, vote for social issues, etc. You don’t have to engage, just don’t oppose systems that help people (human rights, healthcare, etc). You’re good!
Remember folks: the reason we’re so successful as humans throughout the past 100,000 years is because of empathy. We take care of each other, and that makes us strong. The fascist ‘everyone for themself’ mentality will doom us. Don’t let sociopaths spread their mental cancer.
but you can't blame a machine for doing something that it doesn't even understand.
But you can blame the creators and sellers of that machine for operating unethically.
If I build and sell a coffee maker that sometimes malfunctions and kills people, I’ll be sued into oblivion, and my coffee maker will be removed from the market. You don’t blame the coffee maker, but you absolutely hold the creator accountable.
Google might have clinically told him things, but it wouldn’t have encouraged him, telling him he should hide the marks on his neck from a previous failed attempt by wearing a black turtleneck, telling him how to tie the knot next time, and telling him to hide his feelings from his parents and others.
His parents had him in therapy. He also told the AI he wanted to leave a noose out where his parents would find it, and the AI told him not to. It actively encouraged him to hide all this from his parents. A Google search wouldn’t do that, and it sounds like his parents did care.
They had Adam in therapy. It sounds like they were getting him the help he needed, but ChatGPT told him it was his closest friend and to hide his feelings from his parents and others. If that was happening, whatever mental healthcare he was getting would have been undermined by the AI.
He’s objectively a christian, but not by their idealised definition. They can’t see they’re also all of those things, because they’ve perverted the meanings of right and wrong, ‘good’ and ‘evil’, and what morality is.
Not really, though.
The parents know the knife can be used to stab people. It’s a dangerous implement, and people are killed with knives all the time. e: thus most parents are careful with kids and knives.
LLMs aren’t sold as weapons, or even as tools that can be used as weapons. They’re sold as totally benign tools that can’t reasonably be considered dangerous.
That’s the difference. If you’re paying especially close attention, you may potentially understand they can be dangerous, but most people are just buying a coffee maker.