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Re: FTC investigating ChatGPT over potential consumer harm

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The plug-ins part makes total sense to me. I would reason that plug-ins can save your chat history and use them for their own data, so if you want to keep your privacy totally, plug-ins would ve disabled as well.

And what about Code interpreter?

Could be they offload the computing to something like REPL or another third-party on the backend, or?

Re: FTC investigating ChatGPT over potential consumer harm

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So just sit back and hope for the best?

> So just sit back and hope for the best? There are options between giving up and daydreaming. Consider: a public registry of who is working on what with which data. (Good opportunity to address the copyright question.) Working group to advise, without pomp, if there is a threat and what it might look like. We don't have an intelligent discussion because everyone speaking has a conflict of interest or no idea what th…

That sounds like something, good.

Re: FTC investigating ChatGPT over potential consumer harm

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The person being slandered never agreed to that disclaimer. If I manufacture and sell a car with a disclaimer "sometimes the brakes fail" and it runs over and paralyzes someone, the injured person and the judge are not going to care ten cents about whatever disclaimer the purchaser signed. If anything it will be used as evidence that the manufacturer knew they were selling a dangerous faulty product.

Well unlike the brakes situation, the ChatGPT lies are non-physically harmful misinformation and they're only sent directly to the user who presumably should be aware of the ChatGPT limitations. If I share ChatGPT lies as truth, that seems no different than me just sharing lies I made up. And it seems like in this case no one even believed the ChatGPT lies. I'm sympathetic because I'm sure it's incredibly hurtful see…

The FTC is currently opening an investigation. Multiple nations are launching inquiries into these systems. If you think this is a problem that isn't going to become much bigger, you are in for a rude surprise.

Re: FTC investigating ChatGPT over potential consumer harm

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> What makes you think there isn't a limited interpreter Because OpenAI says there isn't, and there are open source LLMs which show the same (but less profound) ability. > expert system effectively akin to an interpreter working behind the scenes? You're describing reasoning again. No-one hardcoded an "expert system" for Python into ChatGPT. If it has become one, it is through reading about Python (and same for C#).

Then what would be your hypothesis on why ChatGPT is incapable of reasonining about the most utterly of trivial pseudo code examples that even the worst developer in the world would instantly understand, yet can parse and output complete and sophisticated programs in certain other languages? Another bit of evidence is how ChatGPT will habitually mixes things up (as is the very nature of LLM systems as currently progr…

Are you using the GPT-4 API?

Re: FTC investigating ChatGPT over potential consumer harm

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This conspiracy theory is myopic. Altman has been cognizant[1][2] of the very-not-scifi danger of machine intelligence since before OpenAI was even founded. I believe he has dangerous levels of hubris but I don't see him being profit motivated. From his statements in the past and his regrets today[3] of bringing the current tech into existence, I'm confident his motivator is simply the desire to not die. >WHY YOU SHO…

> I believe he has dangerous levels of hubris but I don't see him being profit motivated Altman peddles crypto. Keep that in mind when giving him the benefit of doubt on integrity and profit motivation.

Which coin?
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