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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 09:41:16 JST Casey Newton

There's yet another open letter from the AI safety crowd. If they want more people to take them seriously, they need to get more specific
https://www.platformer.news/tuesday-newsletter/
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1. At the same time, there’s no doubt that the AI safety argument has begun to feel a bit tedious over the past year, when the harms caused by large language models have been funnier than they have been terrifying. Last week, when OpenAI put out the first account of how its products are being used in covert influence operations, there simply wasn’t much there to report. We’ve seen plenty of problematic misuse of AI, particularly deepfakes in elections and in schools. (And of women in general.) And yet people who sign letters like the one released today fail to connect high-level hand-wringing about their companies to the products and policy decisions that their companies make. Instead, they speak through opaque open letters that have surprisingly little to say about what safe development might actually look like in practice.
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2. What aren’t the OpenAI whistleblowers saying?
  
  from @CaseyNewton
  
  A group of current and former employees say the company has been reckless — but aren’t offering many details
- Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 09:41:15 JST Eugen Rochko
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  @caseynewton I think the people behind the letter unequivocally subscribe to the idea that the current LLM technology is a path to AGI. It's important to question that assumption. That's the biggest disconnect for me when reading it. Such an assumption directly serves the interests of OpenAI and other LLM companies.
  
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- Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 09:41:51 JST Casey Newton
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  - Eugen Rochko
  @Gargron great point! would love to see them engage with that more directly
  
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- Sloan Studio (sloanstudio@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 09:50:48 JST Sloan Studio
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  - Eugen Rochko
  @Gargron @caseynewton And there is already plenty of damage these current systems can do…
  
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