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MC Unexpected Item In Bagging Area @kobi-lacroix5/31/2023, 1:52 AM

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Amy Dentata @amydentata5/30/2023, 11:40 PM

Oh no, if only everybody had predicted this would happen

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvk97/eating-disorder-helpline-disables-chatbot-for-harmful-responses-after-firing-human-staff

#ai #machine learning

Cliff 🦖 Pervocracy @pervocracy5/31/2023, 12:06 AM

sorry to slide back into technoskepticism but this is how this always fucking goes

company: we are going to do thing with AI

commentators: but what about subtle problems, like the human touch or making deep ethical decisions? we may simulate conversation, but have we truly simulated empathy?

AI, immediately upon release: i'm gonna drive directly into a firetruck for no reason

commentators: ...we over-estimated the problems we would have.

EDIT: holy shit it's supposedly hand-written?!!?! I may have misblamed AI for this one but... but wow, this might not even be an accident, this might be something closer to active malice

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Michaela Sue @beige-alert5/31/2023, 12:17 AM

Dang yeah, never mind the thousand more-or-less subtle ways things could go non-optimally, it's directly into the nearest most-total failure

colin @vogon5/31/2023, 1:12 AM

this is part of why I have such a dim view of industrial AI ethicists at this point -- these technologies have such profound flaws and are universally deployed so irresponsibly that I have a very hard time believing any subject matter expert going into a role like that is doing it because they sincerely think they can ensure that this time, it's done correctly

Cliff 🦖 Pervocracy @pervocracy5/31/2023, 1:33 AM

yeah, it seems like AI ethicists only want to work on the fun problems they wish they had and not the boring problems they actually have

@garak5/31/2023, 3:37 AM

Part of the problem is that AI Ethicists are trained about the ethics of AI. When they are asked to weigh in on the ethics of the middling chatbots sold as "AI" they are entirely out of their element.

invertigo hayfever @the-doomed-posts-of-muteKi5/31/2023, 4:16 AM

also the minute they actually state any concerns they get fired anyway

David Smith @Catfish-Man5/31/2023, 5:30 AM

It's worth making a distinction between the folks like Timnit doing AI Ethics work (and getting fired for it), and the dipshits worrying about the robot apocalypse, who mostly call themselves "AI Alignment" researchers, and disparage the ethics folks