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Hackernews MSNBC types like concentrating power when it suits them. They never think ahead--that they're making little Christmas presents for the "bad guys" when that power changes hands.

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Yes, a chatbot that asks questions in a friendly manner using the Socratic method is surely going to be how the establishment concentrates power. It's not like promoting skepticism and healthy rational discussion could be beneficial for everyone in society, it has to be yet another way the enemy is screwing you.

a chatbot that can barely go a paragraph without hitting an ideological tripwire—like gemini’s “greek philosophers”. for people who grew up in the before times, it’s just a nuisance, but for the kids, this is dark and insidious. so go ahead with your centralizing and your reddit bitch sarcasm, then reeeeee to us there when it all falls into the wrong hands, again.

I find it funny that you're so threatened by and worried about a chatbot falling "into the wrong hands." Whatever you're implying would happen if it fell into the wrong hands would be no worse than the present state of things.

> so go ahead with your centralizing and your reddit bitch sarcasm, then reeeeee to us there when it all falls into the wrong hands, again.

Lol. Your comment is hard to take seriously. If I'm a Reddit bitch, maybe you should go back to 4chan.

> threatened by and worried

No, disgusted by the hubris and the stupidity. "De-programmed" is, in actuality, programming for a different agenda. Shouldn't be programming or de-programming anybody. If one group is de-programming with OpenAI, in time, another group will be de-programming with Tay. It is all abomination.

A lot of people are already being "programmed" to be Nazis via existing media. I doubt a hypothetical chatbot that does the opposite of this one could do any better than existing celebrities and influencers peddling such lies and propaganda. On the other hand, no one who's a Nazi is being deprogrammed of it by anyone, unless their media consumption is simply cut off for a long time. It's not a symmetric situation. If that's really your only concern, I wouldn't worry about it.

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