LordHumungous

LLMs lack the holy ghost

I developed this for my own personal use. Maybe you will find it useful too!

> Reading everything becomes the default. At a cent per document, a model can read every paper in a field, every record in an archive, every email, or every message in a support queue as a matter of routine

Pretty much already happening

I work at Meta. The security team was recently gutted. 50% were either laid off or moved to data labeling.

What if I tell the model to go commit fraud or crimes and it complies? What if users are having psychotic episodes driven by their interactions with the model?

Just because safety is a hard and messy problem doesn't mean we should just wash our hands of it.

Why not rewrite if code is free

However there are many people out there making the argument that code is free or nearly so. I think the article is directed at them.

Usually all code has an owner though. If I encounter a bug the first thing I often do is look at git blame and see who wrote the code then ask them for help.

Kind of funny ngl

Most people are far more concerned about their livelihood than about abstract notions of beating China in a game of geopolitics. In that scenario the US becomes an isolated economy, and other nations likely follow suit. It will be a poorer, less dynamic world, but most people will choose that outcome over poverty.

That would be an interesting scenario.

If the worst predictions about AI's effect on employment turn out to be correct, then I'd expect to see movements to force government regulation of AI. Particularly if it becomes the case that profits are accruing to a few massive corporations who run the AI.

There is no reason people have to tolerate a technology that is destructive to society, anymore than they have to tolerate companies selling fentanyl at 7/11.