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by lordswork 820 days ago
Funnily enough, the same AI safety teams that held Google back from using large transformers in products are also largely responsible for the Gemini image generation debacle.

It is tough to find the right balance though, because AI safety is not something you want to brush off.

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> AI safety is not something you want to brush off

It really depends on what exactly is meant by "safety", because this word is used in several different (and largely unrelated) meanings in this context.

The actual value of the kind of "safety" that led to the Gemini debacle is very unclear to me.

I thought Google fired it's AI Ethicists a few years back and dismantled the team?
Ethics != Safety. Also, Google still has both afaik