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by zzzeek 38 days ago
It wasn't "preventable" though. How would you prevent what's been happening ? Pass a law making GPUs illegal ? Just ..."convince" everyone that the machine that can write working software, business letters and render good enough banner and print advertising for nearly free is evil and just don't use it (ask Emily Bender how that's going)? There is no realistic way from stopping any of this from happening. Need a different approach.
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I proposed literally none of those solutions or even suggested them.
<< common sense guard rails and a little bit of actual intention

The issue is that you seem to be proposing nothing but platitudes and when called on it, did not elaborate but high tailed to the cloak of misunderstood defender of sense and sensibility.

It’s not simply platitudes. People use the phrase constantly in this context: https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/2024...
I read it and even with charitable read on the biggest guardrail appears to be putting a bunch of committees in the process to control the process one way or another. At its core, it is a wishlist for education workers and I am not completely against that, but lets call it what it actually is. Beyond that.. I have not seen an actual proposal.. common sense or otherwise. And that is before we get 'being eco friendly' ( how is that guardrail for AI? ), advancing democracy ( again, not sure how it is a guardrail ) or advancing equity and fairness ( same question ).

The closest thing I saw to an actual guardrail was humans.. which, is not wrong at its core, but again lacks specificity.