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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

I am absolutely certain that letting a hallucination-as-a-service system call the police if it suspects a user is being nefarious is a great plan. This will definitely ensure that all the people threatening their chatbots with death will think twice about their language, and no-one on the internet will ever be naughty ever again. The police will certainly thank anthropic for keeping them up to date with the almost certainly illegal activities of a probably small number of criminal users.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (4 children)

can't wait for the training set biases to cause a fresh horror for marginalised groups that happen to have to use this shit because it's forced on them. I'm sure it'll all go perfectly and nothing bad will happen

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Gonna go ahead and start counting the days until an unarmed black person in the US gets killed in a police interaction prompted by this fucking nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

yeah it's gonna happen way too damn fucking quickly (and way too damn fucking many times, too)

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