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Will ChatGPT Revolutionize Surveillance? (www.aclu.org)

submitted 1 year ago by tardigrada to c/technology

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A little experiment to demonstrate how a large language model like ChatGPT can not only write, but can read and judge. That, in turn, could lead to an enormous scaling up of the number of communications that are meaningfully monitored, warns ACLU, a human rights group.

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[–] Hirom 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's usually more complicated than what a catchphrase could convey, but I think it's pretty close.

Anyone can get access to pretty powerful ML, just with a credit card. But it's harder to get a handle on ethical implications, privacy implications, and the way the model is inaccurate, biased. This require caution, wisdom, which too few people have.

I know basics in the area, probably more than the average person, but not enough to use ML safely and ethically in practical applications. So it's probably too early to make powerful ML accessible to the general public, not without better safeguard built-in.

[–] acabjones@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

This is not at all unique to AI. Reminds me of some of the samples from this track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uu6mW3y5Iw (which is a sick beat) which I looked up and paste here:

"In the meantime, a race of human-looking aliens contacted the U.S. Government. This alien group warned us against the aliens that were orbiting the Equator and offered to help us with our spiritual development. They demanded that we dismantle and destroy our nuclear weapons as the major condition. They refused to exchange technology citing that we were spiritually unable to handle the technology which we then possessed. They believed that we would use any new technology to destroy each other. This race stated that we were on a path of self-destruction and we must stop killing each other, stop polluting the Earth, stop raping the Earth's natural resources, and learn to live in harmony."

https://vocal.media/futurism/the-greada-treaty

[–] Gaywallet 3 points 1 year ago

Well stated, completely agreed.