> Suleyman argues AI models may become even harder to control if they're told to think they have feelings and rights: "Frankly, with this additional baggage, I think it would make them a catastrophic threat to human civilisation," Suleyman says.
This feels like a villain's reasoning, and I'm kind of astounded he's just saying it out loud.
In my twenty years of being a netizen I have never been more concerned about the future of computing. Giving a handful of incredibly shady corporations humanity's future seems really unwise.
The politician using twitter, which has (and I'm going to try to state this as neutrally as possible) a free public AI-powered CSAM generator, to decry OpenAI for going too far, is the kind of sublime absurdity that would be impossible to explain to someone in the 2010s.
Right, let's just ignore multiple instances of city councils receiving hours of impassioned speeches from constituents then unanimously voting against the will of the people.
I've been warning my boss that we need to stop using google for our work email accounts because of exactly shit like this. Not looking forwards to the inevitable "I told you so".
Have exempted smaller models so far. Seems like they're trying to soft-launch then tighten the ratchet, and I'd be willing to accept that this is a cynical view if this hasn't been the modus operandi for a while now. See EA/Sony/etc. continually trying to find a way to get their foot in the "always online, you're just renting the game" door.
It's all the terrible parts of the Cyberpunk universe, headline after headline. It's glib but I also don't have a better way to express this feeling as someone who's spent twenty years on the net in one form or another. I don't want to become numb to it, but I'm also running out of ways to say "what the fuck, this is ridiculous".