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theoldgreybeard ◴[] No.46182214[source]
If a carpenter builds a crappy shelf “because” his power tools are not calibrated correctly - that’s a crappy carpenter, not a crappy tool.

If a scientist uses an LLM to write a paper with fabricated citations - that’s a crappy scientist.

AI is not the problem, laziness and negligence is. There needs to be serious social consequences to this kind of thing, otherwise we are tacitly endorsing it.

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rectang ◴[] No.46182944[source]
“X isn’t the problem, people are the problem.” — the age-old cry of industry resisting regulation.
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codywashere ◴[] No.46183019[source]
what regulation are you advocating for here?
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1. rectang ◴[] No.46183717[source]
I’m not advocating, I’m making a high-level observation: Industry forever pushes for nil regulation and blames bad actors for damaging use.

But we always have some regulation in the end. Even if certain firearms are legal to own, howitzers are not — although it still takes a “bad actor” to rain down death on City Hall.

The same dynamic is at play with LLMs: “Don’t regulate us, punish bad actors! If you still have a problem, punish them harder!” Well yes, we will punish bad actors, but we will also go through a negotiation of how heavily to constrain the use of your technology.

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2. codywashere ◴[] No.46183861[source]
so, what regulation do we need on LLMs?

the person you originally responded to isn’t against regulation per their comment. I’m not against regulation. what’s the pitch for regulation of LLMs?