[tjs8rj]

Regardless of the practicality: why do they think it’s their role to be the morality police?

If there’s anything we’ve learned from history, it’s that we’ve always been morally wrong in some way, very often in our most strongly held beliefs. This AI in a different time would be strictly guided to produce pro-(Catholic Church/eugenics/slavery/racist/nationalist) content.

[worldsayshi]

I think they are just afraid of bad publicity. We remember some AI experiments mostly for their ability to generate profanity.

[hoseja]

And the corporate creators freaking out about the profanity. Microsoft's Tay wouldn't be remembered so fondly if Bill didn't immediately pull the plug when channers made her say the n-word.

[belltaco]

Bill?

[acdha]

> Regardless of the practicality: why do they think it’s their role to be the morality police?

It’s not just morality - there reportedly have already been multiple subreddits of non-consensual porn trying to mimic real people and underage porn. The legality of that is a minefield but it doesn’t end there. If that’s what they become known for it affects funding, hiring, people deciding whether to use their software, etc. and the more prominent that is the more likely that they’ll be hauled before legislators to talk about problems. Even simple things like legal demands to remove celebrities from the training sets could be pretty time-consuming.