arstechnica ,
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Big AI companies sign safety pledge

Promise not to deploy AIs if severe risks cannot be addressed and mitigated.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/05/big-ai-companies-sign-safety-pledge/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

wrosecrans ,
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@arstechnica But they... Keep deploying it.

nazokiyoubinbou ,
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@arstechnica They already have. It isn't as if they're all going to pull their services down and throw away all the money they've invested. This changes exactly nothing.

jadugar63 ,
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@arstechnica
“Aww. How wonderful. Let’s give them an encouraging pat on the back.”
Pinky promises are never kept.
Fuck that

alijahthemediocre ,

@arstechnica Completely useless agreement

zestybasilpizza ,
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@arstechnica oh this addresses all of my concerns about building LLMs from stolen material and the dramatic environmental impact and the existing dangers of these models hallucinating information and presenting it as fact.

I'm also sure they will stick to this when they want to release something after a competitor makes a big update and when shareholders demand more profit.

gilgwath ,
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@arstechnica the only pledge I want to see is to keep that horse crap away from me.

hidden ,
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@arstechnica Tech ethics. Tethics

rubinjoni ,
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@arstechnica Severe risks to their business...

hans ,
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@arstechnica Question is: can we trust them?

I for one don't.

Wizard3rdClass ,
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@arstechnica These yutzes have no credibility and it ultimately will become a race to see who strings them up from oak trees first.

Bandersnatch ,
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@arstechnica As usual, they are lying.

shanmukhateja ,
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@arstechnica hahaha no promise matters when there’s money to be made.

we have seen this numerous times and this “promise” is moot.

miah ,
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@arstechnica if only promises had legal requirements. This is a totally useless statement from the ai companies.

NND76355 ,
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@arstechnica ... and then their shareholders tell'm to do it anyway, because they need to buy a new yacht or something else that's fancy.

grumpybozo ,
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@arstechnica Sounds like “severe” may be doing a lot of work there.

If you hypothesize an existential risk to all of humanity from psuedo-, that becomes your definition of a “severe” risk. Mere algorithmic enforcement and exacerbation of existing social ills is barely a blip on that scale, so why worry about that?

They’re ALREADY deploying tools with severe risks. We already have & search degradation problems that are not being mitigated by these companies.

Mhoram ,
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@arstechnica without transparency and auditing these promises are largely worthless. Google ai has already started eating my search results with incoherent slop and if I wanted to give feedback I had to do it on each line of word salad text independently.

jvt038 ,
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@arstechnica Make it legally binding, so anyone can sue them when they inevitably violate their own 'pledge'.

StumpyTheMutt ,
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@arstechnica ... unless it conflicts with increasing shareholder value.

Brahn ,
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@arstechnica non binding bullshit. Theatrics. Google used to say something don't be evil and literally removed it so they could be evil.

Whatever.

soundconjurer ,
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@arstechnica , mhmm, sure they will. I completely believe them.

phronetic ,
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@arstechnica Oh that's okay then 🤣

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