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Mark Bisone's avatar

"...Section 230 should not protect platforms from misinformation that their own tools generate. Regulations that spur greater accuracy might actually spur greater innovation."

As always, the question becomes: Who decides what is accurate and what is misinformation? The regulators? What shields them from industry capture, or from pursuing their own perverse incentives and political motives? Who watches the watchmen?

Also, since next-token predictions are based on training sources, will the regulators be picking and choosing those sources? If so, how transparent would that process be? What if something is considered misinformation one day and found out to be accurate the next(e.g. Hunter Biden's laptop)? What would the retraining process look like? Suppose there isn't always clear line between facts and lies (spoilers: there isn't) ?

If the ultimate goal is to make GPT and its ilk abandonware, maybe such censorship routines would do the trick, but at the cost of rigging up yet another powerful and unaccountable bureaucracy. A Ministry of Truth by any other name, and who would assuredly follow the same pattern of cancerous growth and mission creep as the rest.

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Phil Tanny's avatar

Point #1: The conventional wisdom these days seems to be that AI regulation will stifle innovation, and that it should be avoided at all costs.

AI is yet another 55 gallon drum of jet fuel about to be pored on an already overheated knowledge explosion. Nobody in AI land seems capable of looking past the details of one particular technology to the larger picture in which all emerging technologies reside.

The "more is better" conventional wisdom you refer to is at least a century out of date. The technical brilliance of these innovators is obscuring the fact that they are backward looking philosophical children.

Simple common sense available to high school kids should be sufficient to inform us that if we insist on pushing the knowledge explosion forward faster and faster without limit it's only a matter of time until society at large won't be able to successfully adapt to the changes.

Nuclear weapons have been my generation's inexcusable crime. AI will be yours.

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