Three governments agree on something the AI industry doesn't want to hear
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Three governments agree on something the AI industry doesn't want to hear
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Re: Three governments agree on something the AI industry doesn't want to hear
#2The governments of China, California and New York agree on three harmful aspects of companion AI chatbots.
Re: Three governments agree on something the AI industry doesn't want to hear
#3"The logic is that free, user-built companions inside mass-market general-purpose apps are impossible to moderate at scale."
I think they misspelled censor.
Re: Three governments agree on something the AI industry doesn't want to hear
#4With respect to GDP the #2, #4, and #8 all agree that artificial companionship is probably bad for humans should tell you something.
Re: Three governments agree on something the AI industry doesn't want to hear
#5It begs the conclusion that these 3 are similar Governments in the way they govern.
Re: Three governments agree on something the AI industry doesn't want to hear
#6"The logic is that free, user-built companions inside mass-market general-purpose apps are impossible to moderate at scale." I think they misspelled censor.
Not really. They are censored easily and successfully.
However, moderation is hard and the companies are motivated to moderate them toward maximum outrage with some plausible deniality on top of it.
Re: Three governments agree on something the AI industry doesn't want to hear
#7I liked this article. Does a good job of framing some of the concerns around this in clear language.
e.g.
> Attachment Economy, which is an extractive business model that uses AI to lure people into forming emotional attachments to chatbots
Re: Three governments agree on something the AI industry doesn't want to hear
#8Eh, this hysteria reminds me a lot of the early 1980s when people seriously believed that role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons were bad for mental health - one of Tom Hanks' early roles was in "Mazes & Monsters", a 1982 TV movie that supposedly exposed the sanity-destroying nature of RPGs. Now it looks just silly. Maybe, just as we now get that people can enjoy pretending to be an elf wizard without going insane, others enjoy pretending that a chatbot is their boyfriend and girlfriend and still be well adjusted members of society.
Re: Three governments agree on something the AI industry doesn't want to hear
#9Eh, this hysteria reminds me a lot of the early 1980s when people seriously believed that role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons were bad for mental health - one of Tom Hanks' early roles was in "Mazes & Monsters", a 1982 TV movie that supposedly exposed the sanity-destroying nature of RPGs. Now it looks just silly. Maybe, just as we now get that people can enjoy pretending to be an elf wizard without going insan…
It's important to ground ourselves in the differences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_linked_to_chatbots
Not to say D&D hasn't surely been linked to a few deaths as well... get a large enough sample and you'll see just about anything.
Re: Three governments agree on something the AI industry doesn't want to hear
#10Eh, this hysteria reminds me a lot of the early 1980s when people seriously believed that role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons were bad for mental health - one of Tom Hanks' early roles was in "Mazes & Monsters", a 1982 TV movie that supposedly exposed the sanity-destroying nature of RPGs. Now it looks just silly. Maybe, just as we now get that people can enjoy pretending to be an elf wizard without going insan…
Few if any of the people playing D&D actually thought they were elf wizards, or that they were doing magic, or communing with eldritch gods.
Meanwhile many if not most of the people who have chatbots as their significant other actually have that relationship, and believe it to be as real as a relationship with a human being.
The former are playing a game for entertainment, and suspending their disbelief, the latter are using a machine to satisfy emotional and psychological needs in ways that anyone would consider harmful, and having their beliefs altered by proprietary commercial software sometimes past the point of psychosis.