Faced with new legislation, Iowa’s Mason City Community School District asked ChatGPT if certain books ‘contain a description or depiction of a sex act.’
ChatGPT is famous for hallucinating answers to factual questions. And they used it anyway? Day by day, the risk of AI killing us all is paling in comparison to the risk of stupid humans killing us all using AI.
ChatGPT makes us go. We are smart.
ChatGPT is famous for hallucinating answers to factual questions. And they used it anyway?
Sure, why not? Did you think actually censoring the appropriate content and nothing else was the goal? The spokesperson says as much - they don’t have the time or interest to actually implement the law, but have to - so they went with a sophisticated-sounding but actually ineffective solution. This is working exactly as intended.
As for the lawmakers, they don’t care what kids read, really, and they can be pretty sure their base won’t hear about this through the ideologically-friendly media sources they use. It’s not new logic, Mussolini’s trains were late sometimes and Hitler’s economy was propped up by tooth gold, too.
Day by day, the risk of AI killing us all is paling in comparison to the risk of stupid humans killing us all using AI.
What about stupid humans making an AI that kills us all? 👉😎👉
Like, it bugs me that there’s a slap fight over how directly we’ll fuck ourselves up with AI. Imagine if doctors had spent the pandemic publicly arguing over long covid risks vs. ICU deaths.
