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ttystikk t1_iz122xf wrote

Reply to comment by levijohnson1 in Man and Machine: A new Era by levijohnson1

This sounds like a recipe for a dystopian nightmare. To be clear, I don't think it will be the AI's fault but rather the uses unscrupulous and frankly criminal people will put it to.

The conversation needs to be had about how to limit the influence of AI gone bad and how to protect ourselves from other people's worst impulses magnified by such technology.

Yes I'm an idealist. I believe in the power of AI. But as a student of the human condition, I have real concerns.

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Wellpow t1_iz2dpzu wrote

Yeah AI can be used for pretty nefarious purposes. Before openAI patched it, after a little tweaking, chatGPT was answering how to make molotov cocktails and how to hack Fb accounts and how Hitler was a good guy.

But I think it will be hard to limit the technology, because many ai models are already open source

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ttystikk t1_iz2kgon wrote

>But I think it will be hard to limit the technology, because many ai models are already open source

This is what scares me. I understand that almost all technologies carry risks and those risks must be managed for the tech to be a net benefit for society.

I'm not saying that it can't happen for AI but I AM saying that we lack the ability to effectively manage the risks of AI today. That means the bad actors have a big head start and that's the part that concerns me.

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ttystikk t1_iz1e6rr wrote

These are exactly the kind of jobs those very groups will be tasking advanced AI with.

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