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by entangledqubit 700 days ago
I regularly worry that one of the biggest benefits of LLMs for corporations is being able to obfuscate their editorial decisions.
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Madeleine Clare Elish described AI as providing “moral crumple zones” (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2757236) where it can serve as a buffer of plausible deniability to deflect blame when it behaves irresponsibly. For the corporation defects in the LLM are a feature.

https://pluralistic.net/tag/moral-crumple-zones/

Anyone who doesn't recognize that LLMs main usefulness to corporations is censorship at the base information level is very behind the times

"oh wow this is so easy, we can filter all our requests through this .gov model and not have to track all the pesky open source software that has been sanctioned ourselves"