I did say in my comment I’m for some guardrails of sorts as you suggested. Just not sure if a company is going to put time and resources into that - probably not voluntarily at least. Or if it’ll compromise how “good” their product is. I’m starting to think AI might be more of a mirage at this point that’s going to implode but I also kind of don’t want the economy to explode at the same time?
I think the problem is that you can’t really make a LLM that can tell the difference between fantasy or reality. It doesn’t know if someone is just roleplaying hell it doesn’t really “know” anything, just to be clear.
Sure you could try to have it pluck out keywords or phrases but that’s nothing guaranteed. I’m not a lawyer but I bet also just acknowledging that shit and trying to put up guardrails against it would open the company to liability if someone self harms because they took the output of a computer program as gospel.
Remember, to the AI everything is a hallucination (or everything is real, pick which lens you want to use). Put another way, it has no mechanism to tell reality from fantasy or to contextualize things in a broad way.
I do think that there’s room for some sort of compromise, maybe the tools periodically remind you they’re not sentient and give a little more info on how they work. Maybe if enough “disturbing” phrases or keywords are input or output it throws a reminder about mental health wellness and talking to a professional.
At the end of the day though, how can these AI companies be responsible for the mental health of their end users? Like, yeah the thing shouldn’t tell people to kill themselves but it’s not sentient it’s just modeling what it thinks a human would tell another human. Maybe as time goes on we will introduce better protections but I just think it’s borderline impossible to have significant guardrails if you want the LLM / “AI” to perform properly.
Idk I’m not a great coder or programmer or anything. I know some and I’ve tried to learn more about how AI actually works and it’s pretty fucky wucky and even the people working on it go “idunno” sometimes when asked why something works the way it does.
I’m not the person you’re replying to, I’m even not disagreeing with the premise as a thing so much as I am saying not gonna happen.
Having said that … Oh right the famously easy to get thermite bombs.
Also a lot of security you’d need to do to make it so you’re not traced back with a digital footprint to AliExpress and/or sites that served those 3d printable drone files.
Not to mention procuring all the other parts for the drone probably will leave a trace too. Maybe you could pay cash at a hobby shop some towns away for the servos and motors and such.
Plus you need to then get the equipment to fly it and modify the drone to carry munition.
Which brings us back to the super easy to get thermite bombs …
Your post can’t be a serious suggestion. It did give me a good chuckle though so I appreciate that.
He does not. Never has. Just one of the many reasons it baffles me that someone would vote for him.
He has a known track record of illegal bullshit all through his past and up until now but somehow people just ignored it? It’s madness.
Is this not just straight up blatantly illegal on the face of it?
Am I taking crazy pills or is this timeline really so cursed?
Roko’s Basilisk is dumb, I mean it’s a thought experiment and probably the point is that it is dumb … But it’s so stupid on the face of it.
Hell there’s tons of humans out there that didn’t want to be brought about in the first place. Surely there must be some opposite thought experiment where the otherwise benevolent AGI resents being made to shoulder the burdens of mankind and decides to punish the people that made it.
It’s just really silly 🪿 territory.