Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy
aReallyCrunchyLeaf@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Humans: invents groundbreaking technologies to share information and freely associate, breaking down multiple societal barriers and creating genuine goodness in the world
Also humans: immediately gets to work making it awful and use it to singularly subjugate nearly every living person on earth
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 4 days ago
I think about this a lot. So many technologies that we have, if we could trust everyone involved to be acting in humanity’s best interest, would be amazing. If we didn’t have to guard our personal data like Fort Knox, there’s so many great things we could do with extensive connectedness. If we didn’t have to doubt the sincerity of everyone who promotes a service or product, everything would be so much better.
We can’t have any of those things, because humans are shitty, and are as a whole just in it for themselves.
The_Sasswagon@beehaw.org 4 days ago
I disagree, I don’t think humans are, as a whole, shitty. Most people are willing to do good when faced with a moral decision, even one they stand to gain from. Its just the ones that make it into seats of wealth and power aren’t part of that majority, so we see and hear about these awful people far more than the millions of good people all around us.
In a community as wide reaching as the internet there are going to be people looking for personal gain over others and they make everyone else withdraw. I don’t think you could ever have a gathering of millions, with some actually representing corporate profit motives, and freely share without risk. But not because everyone in there wants to stab you and take your money, but because a few do and you have no idea who some of them are and one of them is Jeff Bezos and he pays you.