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berdiekin t1_j9lky82 wrote

>Why the hell are people treating AI differently?

I don't think we are, like you said it's something that seems to occur with every major new technology.

Seems to me that this is just history repeating itself.

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Standard_Ad_2238 t1_j9lmxm2 wrote

I think most people who are into this field are, but it seems to me that every company is walking on eggshells afraid of a possible big viral tweet or to appear on a well known news website as "the company whose AI did/let the users do [ ]" (insert something bad there), just like Microsoft with Bing.

I could train a dog to attack people on streets and say "hey, dogs are dangerous" or to buy a car and run over a crowd just to say "hey, cars are dangerous too". What it seems to me is that some people don't realize that everything could be dangerous. Everything can and at sometime WILL be used by a malicious person to do something evil, it's simply inevitable.

Recently I started to hear a lot of "imagine how dangerous those image generative AIs are, someone could ruin a lot of people's lives by creating fake photos of them!". Yeah, we didn't have Photoshop until this year.

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HeinrichTheWolf_17 t1_j9lmo94 wrote

Yeah, people shat themselves on the railroad too. It’s always the end of the world.

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