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AI-focused tech firms locked in ‘race to the bottom’, warns MIT professor (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, this the setup for regulatory capture before regulation has even been conceived. The likes of OpenAI would like nothing more than to be legally declared the only stewards of this "dangerous" technology. The constant doom laden hype that people keep falling for is all part of the plan.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I think calling it "dangerous" in quotes is a bit disingenuous - because there is real potential for danger in the future - but what this article seems to want is totally not the way to manage that.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It would be an obvious attempt at pulling up the ladder if we were to see regulation on ai before we saw regulation on data collection from social media companies. Wen have already seen that weaponized. Why are we going to regulate something before it gets weaponized when we have other recent tech, unregulated, being weaponized?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I saw a post the other day about how people crowd sourced scraping grocery store prices. Using that data they could present a good case for price fixing and collusion. Web scraping is already pretty taboo and this AI fear mongering will be the thing that is used to make it illegal.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It won't be illegal because there is repeated court precedent for it to be categorically legal.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

so chatgpt can scrap data?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes.

It's not unlike recording someone in public. Anything publicly available on the internet is legal for you to access and download. There is no expectation of that datas privacy.