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midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

This is a whataboutism. In the same way that I view nicotine, gambling, alcohol companies as wrong to try to trigger existing neuroses in their customers with their ads, ai companies are unethical for their role in triggering antisocial behavior, and even promoting it, in their users. “What about psychotic people” isn’t a valid defense of llms.

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Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
They are “guns don’t kill people”-ing it. Ignore them.

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wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
This is bullshitism, it is the same as saying that “alcohol companies are unethical for their role in triggering drunk driving”. I don’t see how AI companies despite of their many issues, are somehow intentionally triggering any antisocial behavior. Most of the “ethical problems” that we have with LLMs are a result of the user being retarded.

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- midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Hey asshole, this isn’t an unanswered question. At least click the link before jumping to your gf’s defense:
  
  Here, we show that sycophancy is widespread in leading AI systems and has harmful effects on users’ social judgments.
  
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  - lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    Hey asshole
    
    Do you scream in people’s faces in real life? Because this comment makes it seem like you scream in people’s faces in real life
    
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    midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    That’s the word you found offensive? Not their ablist slur, or my intimating about their love life? Or even bullshit? How is asshole worse than bullshit? Where do you think bullshit comes from?
    
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  - wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Hey asshole, that doesn’t mean it was intended to trigger antisocial behavior. Don’t assign malice to ignorance. Notice that this doesn’t mean that corporations are unethical by design, just saying that this doesn’t prove it was a deliberate choice.
    
    The problem with this platform in general and with AI “Ethics” is that hate obfuscates the discussion.
    
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    midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I don’t give a fuck if it’s deliberate. I think it is, and the article gives good reason to believe this is a choice by tech corpos to boost engagement, but I also don’t think it matters really why they are being harmful.
    
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