OpenAI wants parents to trust ChatGPT with teenagers, but apparently not enough to tell them when those teenagers spend an hour discussing suicide, self harm or eating disorders. Calling that »safety« feels generous. It sounds more like OpenAI outsourced the risk to kids and the responsibility to parents.
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"OMG. Our product is so 'smart' that it 'escaped' containment and hacked other orgs completely on its own." -- OpenAI
"We made version for your kids. It's totally safe." -- Also OpenAI.
Hmmm....
Many decades ago, there were toys sold for the TV show Battlestar Galactica, and you could buy a viper or Cylon raider, each which could shoot little red plastic "laser" spring loaded projectiles.
I remember seeing a story on the news about some kid who died playing with the toys, because he and his friends were shooting themselves in the mouth, and he choked to death on it.
The net result of this was the toy being recalled, and a lamer, safe version where the little red projectiles could be popped into the loaded position, and firing would cause little red "projectiles" to extend to the "fired" position, never detaching from the ship.
Anyhoo, I understand that people have died and gone on shooting rampages after using ChatGPT. Surely they will reign things in with greater care than a toy company in the late 70s early 80s did for one death.
One would think so, but i'd guess the investments into those toys were far behind those into chatgpt.
Thankfully it is somewhat agreed that that toy company made a horrible decision that ruined toy design by requiring excessive safety.
Exposing teens to LLMs is going to have really bad outcomes.
We already see it's a mass psychosis machine, and it atrophies your brain and cognitive abilities.
This is going to be a disaster.
It is incumbent for
I'm pretty sure that that should be "it is incumbent on". It's part of a phrase that can't take just any old preposition.
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https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/incumbent
be incumbent on/upon someone
to be necessary for someone because it is their duty
Yeah.
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