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by echelon 1190 days ago
The class of problems I'm worried about:

- People using AI to send mass telemarketing messages

- People using AI to commit fraud

The law will handle these cases just fine.

The class of problems I'm not worried about:

- People using AI to tell [liberal, conservative] people to hold [liberal, conservative] opinion

- People saying they learned [X] [fact, disinformation] from an AI

People that want to hold an opinion will do so regardless of information to the contrary. Trying to tell people that they're incapable of judging information for themselves or that you need to design a system to protect them will only make them angry and mistrusting.

The only "fix" for this is to talk openly and honestly and stop treating people like incompetent babies.

2 comments

> The only "fix" for this is to talk openly and honestly and stop treating people like incompetent babies.

Asymmetric costs matter.

> People using AI to send mass telemarketing messages

> The law will handle these cases just fine.

You must not be American.