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"mostly adolescents" is what his web site says about who they target. There are very strict ethics rules around experimenting on children.
This fucking GPT-3 mania needs to end. What a goddamn nightmare.
@abucci that is not nice. But maybe helps. I don't know. I use ChatGPT to give me programming examples and help in starting to write a bit of code with a lib I don't know. For example, with Python and Markdown Library and how to configure markdown extensions. That actually worked really well and much better than any 20 min Stack Overflow search.
@abucci it's really, really tricky.
If we dΓ©pend on a machine to automate a life saving procedure we may say it's fine, but automating a suicide prevention line is controversial when it _may_ actually help.
In medicine and science there is a lot of research, dark incentives and placebos in the name of progress... So, I don't know what to think. I've been reading that book _Bad blood_, and basically is, until a huge fraud happens, the law gets updated to prevent another case, and it's a never ending story...
@abucci it's not gonna end... It's worth for some people, was predicted for the last few years and it's only going to be used more and more.
Like phones, GPS and navigation, flags memories, quantum computers, telecommunications...
It's even going to become the new "Gods" (citation needed).
I guess that's going to transform completely the way we think. So what's going to happen with people not likening it is, you know, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.
@eaplmx there's nothing tricky about leading a person in distress into believing they are speaking to a human being when they are not. That is lying, it is unethical, and it is inhuman.
@eaplmx it will not be used more and more if we stop it. This is not gravity we're talking about. They are human choices, ultimately influenced by policies that can be changed.
You sound very fatalistic.
@abucci perhaps I sound realistic... And yeah, realistically pessimistic. I'd like to know viable alternatives, not ideal but practical.
How are we going to stop it?
Like when social networks spread in humanity and we received warnings of its danger. We are using microblogging to talk about it, as we are going to use AI/ML more and more, but so slowly we are not going to perceive their inclusion in society. It's in our keyboard auto correct, our browsers, personal assistants, search engines... So, what can be done?
@abucci I agree with that part, lying is wrong, although people like to live some lies, but that's another conversation.
I don't agree that automating a help line is completely wrong per se... We'll need to define lines on, at this right moment of humanity, what's "right, true, and such"
Something I don't agree with is polarization of "everything about this subject is wrong" "everything is amazing".
It's good to be opinionated, I respect different ideas (right or wrong). I prefer to say "Perhaps I'm wrong. Tell me more..."
@eaplmx people thought smoking would be around forever. Till it wasn't. Change happens quickly when the conditions allow it. Right now we have a handful of extremely rich and powerful people trying to stop all progress because it suits their power, and that's why things seem "inevitable". But that is an illusion, and I reject it. It's certainly not "realistic" except in the most unkind interpretation of that word.
@eaplmx I prefer to let my values speak loudly and clearly. Then no one is confused, including me. I think it's a good practice when you live in an age when so many are spineless and mealy mouthed toadies to the powerful, or compliant, or kazy, or.....
On that score, it is clearly and plainly wrong to experiment on psychologically distressed people who are seeking help, unless they are fully aware that that's what's happening and agree to it.
@abucci I guess the frustrating thing about all this is that we don't stop and think of the consequences or implications π€¦ββοΈ I'm also mad about https://twtxt.net/twt/q2lc7sq π€¬
@abucci I guess the frustrating thing about all this is that we don't stop and think of the consequences or implications π€¦ββοΈ I'm also mad about https://twtxt.net/twt/q2lc7sq π€¬
@abucci I guess the frustrating thing about all this is that we don't stop and think of the consequences or implications π€¦ββοΈ I'm also mad about https://twtxt.net/twt/q2lc7sq π€¬
@abucci I guess the frustrating thing about all this is that we don't stop and think of the consequences or implications π€¦ββοΈ I'm also mad about https://twtxt.net/twt/q2lc7sq π€¬
@abucci having read a couple of the tweets, I completely agree π― this guy ough to be shot and jailed for life π€¦ββοΈπ± Disgusting π’
@abucci having read a couple of the tweets, I completely agree π― this guy ough to be shot and jailed for life π€¦ββοΈπ± Disgusting π’
@abucci having read a couple of the tweets, I completely agree π― this guy ough to be shot and jailed for life π€¦ββοΈπ± Disgusting π’
@abucci having read a couple of the tweets, I completely agree π― this guy ough to be shot and jailed for life π€¦ββοΈπ± Disgusting π’