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by fasterik
920 days ago
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Too often the claims of unethical behavior are knee-jerk, baseless, and speculative. In the example the author cites, Dropbox only sends data to OpenAI when the user explicitly tells the app to engage an AI-related feature, for example to summarize a document. Yet the backlash seems to assume that they're scanning and uploading people's documents en masse, even though there is no evidence of this. Unethical behavior definitely exists in AI companies. Personally, I'm agnostic about whether it's higher or lower than the base rate of unethical behavior in the general population. Anyway, if we're going to talk about bad behavior, we should use specific examples with cited evidence, not fear-mongering. |
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I don't think that AI companies are less trustworthy than our industry in general, but I absolutely think that our industry is far less trustworthy than the general population.
AI companies engaging in the wholesale harvesting of web data to train their models, though, was a particularly egregious violation of trust.