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It wouldn't be a difficult situation if these guys were ethical shops from the get-go, but they aren't, they're trying to staple minimally required ethics on afterwards, and it shows.


LLMs are not moral agents. Any attempt to make them behave that way will necessarily be "staple[ed] on afterwards".


To play devil’s advocate, what ethical safeguards are OpenAI responsible for that they have failed to implement?

This is a wild and difficult to understand technology, even for the people building it. And their safeguards are constantly evolving.

I think you’re attributing to malice what should be attributed to people commercializing a novel technology that is, frankly, being exploited by users.


I'm not the person you're responding to, but I'm more than happy to attribute it to incompetence.

But I don't think that's quite the slam-dunk defense that they're looking for.


I get that argument, but I also don’t think that’s quite fair.

If OpenAI, the market leader with the field’s top talent lured by eye watering pay packages, isn’t competent, then no one really is.




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