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0 pointsroflyear2y ago0 comments

Should we regulate everything you don't "[know] enough about it and would have enough free time. [to learn about it?]"

Isn't it silly to jump to these conclusions when yourself are admitting you really don't know anything about the tech?

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No, it's a legit concern. Both things will happen - there will be abuses, and there will be good uses. It will be a complicated mess, like viruses interacting with anti-viruses, continuous war. My hope is on AGI learning to balance out as many interacting agents.

roflyearOP2y ago

Sure there will be abuses, but not in this way, I don't think. GPT at this point isn't capable of creating novel computer viruses.

If you want to scrape random websites and have GPT hammer at them for old vulnerabilities, I think you could get that to work, but to what gain? You'd be spending a crap ton of cash on API requests and compute, and people do this without GPT obviously. Cost is probably not worth it here for attackers.

Then, I'd hope OpenAI would have some way to detect this and shut these people down. I doubt they do right now, but that'd be my hope ...

vbezhenar2y ago

We should regulate everything which could cause a mass havoc. Like some chemicals, like radio-active isotopes, like nuclear research, like creating viruses.

Is AI in the same category? Some respectable people think so.

chasd002y ago

“Regulation” is pointless here. It’s bits and bytes, it makes about as much sense as when regulating encryption algorithms was attempted.

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