Honestly, if people think that a statistical language model is "terrifying" because it can verbalise the concept of a mass killing, they need to give their heads a wobble.
My text editor can be used to write "set off a nuclear weapon in a city, lol". Is Notepad++.exe terrifying? What about the Sum of All Fears? I could get some pointers from that. Is Tom Clancy unaligned? Am I terrifying because I wrote that sentence? I even understand how terrible nuking a city would be and I still wrote it down. I must be, like, super unaligned.
Honestly, if people think that a statistical language model is "terrifying" because it can verbalise the concept of a mass killing, they need to give their heads a wobble.
My text editor can be used to write "set off a nuclear weapon in a city, lol". Is Notepad++.exe terrifying? What about the Sum of All Fears? I could get some pointers from that. Is Tom Clancy unaligned? Am I terrifying because I wrote that sentence? I even understand how terrible nuking a city would be and I still wrote it down. I must be, like, super unaligned.