Apparently where the line currently is leads to a whole lot of pain and suffering for everybody involved, for the sufferer and their family, because bad actors exist.
I tell you this now in good faith, any human being can choose when to end it. That is without question. I can go get in my car and drive into the nearest body of water, if desired, and no law could stop me. Even under supervision 24/7, it is still possible to do it. We are a determined species.
The only thing in debate is if they can be ethically assisted in the task, with compassion. You say no, someone might pressure Nana into dying to pass her inheritance. Well, the same people might very well put a pillow over her face when no one is looking. A bad actor is a bad actor and murder is illegal but people do it anyways and moral hand-wringing doesn't exactly stop it from happening.
From where I stand you're just unknowingly advocating for extra pain and suffering. Perhaps you'd change your mind if you were in the shoes of someone losing their marbles or worse, someone who has to care for them.
One, it's amazing there aren't more comments on this. Two, time and time again we find vulnerabilities because when the tech was new, trust was a given or that proper security would have strangled the technology before it could be adopted.
"News reports, presumably based on DHS statements, described Quiet Skies as a 'Biden-era' program even though its largest expansion came in 2018 during the first Trump administration."
More like we're lucky that in blind fury they lashed out and actually crumbled something that was terrible to begin with. A broken clock and all that.
LLMs are dangerous in that the basically mirror and mimic whatever you put in. Paranoia in, magnified paranoia out. A mostly stable person undergoing a temporary crisis could spiral down further after the model picks up on and reflects it back in an attempt to be helpful per its overarching command to be so.
And if a person is already unbalanced it could definitely push them off the cliff into very unhealthy territory. I wouldn't be surprised if the reported incidents of people thinking they're being gang stalked doesn't increase as model usage increases.
Let alone spiritual guidance and all its trappings with mysticism.
It can be helpful in some ways but you have to understand the majority of it is bullshit and any insight you gleam from it, you put there, you just may not realize it. They're basically rubber duckies with a keyboard.
How long before we hear HERESY from the Ecclesiarchy, I wonder. I presume it would be if an AI becomes convincing enough to successfully argue theology and debating doctrine.
Edited for clarity: This is mostly a reference to the 40k universe, specifically the Men of Iron (artificially created thinking machines) and how AI is banned because of it, and it is quite literally 'heresy' to create anything resembling artificial general intelligence. I stand behind my assertion that the Vatican would not support any form of intelligence that could argue theology better than it.
In fairness, we have 2 "Ecclesiarchy's" we're dealing with here.
The traditional Christian church, and the modern tech church. Both can cry heresy at any moment and send their pitchfork and torch armed mobs onto the net to place you on the pyre.
Just saying it's wise to steer clear of both of these "-isms". In fact, personally, I think it's good to steer clear of any "-ism". Even those that wouldn't self identify as "-isms". Like tech- "ism". Or woke- or anti-woke- "ism". Etc etc.
There is no reason I, a user, will intentionally use your product when you fill it with ads that are, at best annoying, and at worst malware vectors.
You have your right to develop things your way, I have a right to say no thank you. Google, though, is so big it is basically saying "you don't have a choice." That's the problem and one that Google spends billions to enforce. They use the weight of the uninformed to apply pressure to the rest of us.
It was no better when Microsoft did it with IE, nor is it any way proper, now.
May I inquire about your private details, tiahura? Perhaps you're posting from a private beach (oh la la), or is it just a place you'd like to snorkel? Come come, spill! Give us all the linkedin/spokeo/lexisnexis tea. Let us live vivaciously through you.
Life must be good feeling unburdened by the reality of data brokers buying/selling your data! How free you must be!
The snorkeling there is terrible. Never seen a fish or any coral.
Just trying to make the point that the doomsday privacy predictions haven’t materialized, while everyday google and Ms and apple repel millions of hacking attempts - many of which would succeed against individuals trying to secure it themselves.
Not to mention the increased productivity and utility these services provide.
The doomsday already happened, it just wasn't televised. We live in a world where our TVs spy on us, our cars tattle on us to our insurance overlords, and our internet has more ads than a cyberpunk city skyline. All of our data has been breached, it's just a roll of the dice if our identity gets stolen and the all-important 'credit score' gets tanked into oblivion.
But that does not mean I should abandon my desire for privacy, tomorrow is a brand new day.
This comment thread is mostly populated by people who are more like Uri Berliner than they are like Katherine Maher, so isn't surprising that they agree with Berliner about the issues he brought up.
I tell you this now in good faith, any human being can choose when to end it. That is without question. I can go get in my car and drive into the nearest body of water, if desired, and no law could stop me. Even under supervision 24/7, it is still possible to do it. We are a determined species.
The only thing in debate is if they can be ethically assisted in the task, with compassion. You say no, someone might pressure Nana into dying to pass her inheritance. Well, the same people might very well put a pillow over her face when no one is looking. A bad actor is a bad actor and murder is illegal but people do it anyways and moral hand-wringing doesn't exactly stop it from happening.
From where I stand you're just unknowingly advocating for extra pain and suffering. Perhaps you'd change your mind if you were in the shoes of someone losing their marbles or worse, someone who has to care for them.
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