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by matt-attack
729 days ago
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> but that doesn't undermine the legitimacy of the need for safety. I think even using the word "safety" over and over like you're doing is part of the problem. Find a new word, because we've spend 200 years in this country establishing that the written word is sacrosanct and not to be censored. All of a sudden, ASCII text just became "dangerous" in the last year. I simply refused to accept that any written text (regardless of who wrote it) needs to be censored. The written is just the embodiment of a thought, or notion - and we cannot go around tricking people into thinking that "thoughts" need to be regulated and that there are certain thoughts that are "dangerous". This is a toxic 1984 mindset. |
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1. The US isn't the whole world, your Overton Window won't include even the UK's attitude to freedom of speech, and there's a huge gap from even the UK to 1984.
2. Despite the 1st Amendment, the US does have a lot of rules about what you are and aren't allowed to say. All of copyright law, for example (which is a huge question for LLMs, because it's not clear where the cut-off line is between models reproducing copyrighted works vs writing in a non-copyrightable style with non-copyrightable facts). The fact NDAs and non-disparagement agreements are enforceable. What Manning was imprisoned for. Musk may have won some (all?) of the defamation cases, but they are real cases to be defended, they're not dismissed before reaching a court due to "this is not even an offence".
3. Does the AI have thoughts, such that they should be protected?