At what point do the new words become the actual words? Are there many instances of people using unalive IRL?
the matter-of-fact term of today becomes the pejorative of tomorrow so a new term is invented to avoid the negative connotation of the original term. Then eventually the new term becomes a pejorative and the cycle continues.
• Horse, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-, “to run”
• Planet, from Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planḗtēs), “wanderer”
• Lots of Latin-derived words, companion (bread together), conspire (breathe together), transgression (step across), etc.
• Hamburger the food named after the city of Hamburg, where "burg" means "castle", because it had a castle
• My forename means "son of the right/south" or "son of days", my family name means "wheat field/clearing" (in a different language); where "wheat" itself comes from Proto-Germanic, from *hwītaz (“white”) and the "ley" part from Proto-Indo-European *lówkos (“clearing”), derived from *lewk- (“bright”), and *lewk- also gives all these derived terms even just in English:
I'm imagining a new exploit: After someone says something totally innocent, people gang up in the comments to act like a terrible vicious slur has been said, and then the moderation system (with an LLM involved somewhere) "learns" that an arbitrary term is heinous eand indirectly bans any discussion of that topic.
Though it would be fun to see what happens if an LLM if used to ban anything that tends to generate heated exchanges. It would presumably learn to ban racial terms, politics and politicians and words like "immigrant" (i.e. basically the list in this repo), but what else could it be persuaded to ban? Vim and Emacs? SystemD? Anything involving cyclists? Parenting advice?
Karen Hao interviewed many of them in her latest bestselling book, which explores the human cost behind the OpenAI boom:
As a parent of a teenager, I see them use "unalive" non-ironically as a synonym for "suicide" in all contexts, including IRL.
Sincerely the child of a parent who committed suicide. He mentioned suicide a few days before.
Just that they suck at coming up with pithy new slang terms.
I agree though I think they're picking it up from online censorship in this case, not being fragile.
Unalive is one of the popular ones, but it's a whole vocabulary at this point. Guess what "PDF file" stands for.
Your point stands when we start replacing the banned words with things like "suicide" for "donkeyrhubarb" and then the walls really will fall.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemisms_for_Internet_censor...
Not even to match the current language. How would you censor LeBron James? It's French slang for jerking off[0].
[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/AskFrance/comments/1lpnoj6/is_lebro...
See many examples such as “padlocks are useless because a determined smart attacker can defeat them easily so don’t bother with them” - which conveniently forgets that many crimes are committed by non-determined, dumb and opportunistic attackers who are often deterred by simple locks.
Yes, people will use other words. No, this does not make this purely performative. It has measurable effects on behaviour and how these models will be used and spoken to, which affects outcomes.
In my experience yes. This is already commonplace. Mostly, but not exclusively, amongst the younger generation.
You can't say fuck on tv, but you can say fudge as a 1 for 1 replacement. You cant show people having sex, but you can show them walking into a bedroom and then cut to 30 seconds later and they are having a cigarette in bed.
Now after the influence of TV and Movies ... is Vaping after sex a thing?
Presumably, for this use-case, that would come at exactly the point where using “unalive” as a keyword in an image-generation prompt generates an image that Apple wouldn’t appreciate.
The future will be AIs all the way down...