[rapind]

> having millions of people who can instantly produce reams of racist abuse to swamp online fora is a problem, even if you believe in free speech. It potentially changes the power dynamic in favour of a racist minority to dominate public discourse.

I kinda think when (not if) this happens it's going to be quickly drowned in all sorts of other AI generated garbage. In fact, we will probably render internet news useless pretty sure without a proper trust / source identification system.

[wredue]

The racists don’t usually post outright racist stuff anymore (unless you go looking for forums that enable such a thing). It doesn’t work, even with bots.

You nearly always just see dog whistles, whataboutism, “Just Asking Questions”, “I’m not a racist but…”, fake stats, “racism is free speech”, etc. in fact, there’s quite a lot of that in this very section.

The question really is not “why does the model prevent sensitive topics”. The question is “why does hacker news get suddenly flooded with people who are ‘concerned’ about letting models be racist every single time models are discussed?”

I would suggest to you that there’s already loads of bots here.

[volkk]

> we will probably render internet news useless pretty sure without a proper trust / source identification system.

I really think this will be the ultimate use case of blockchain tech/crypto.