> Get your out of your tribalistic mindset. And get your tribalistic mindset out of the way of real progress (as opposed to so called "social justice" ""progress"")
Most humans can’t help but be tribalist, which is why I don’t blame you for taking a swipe at social justice even though I very carefully didn’t say which tribe I’m in.
Now, given you appear to hate social justice enough to put it in scare quotes, I ask you to imagine some amoral but intellectually perfect AI tasked with the goal of creating propaganda that calls for the destruction of anyone who hates social justice. (If you’d said the same thing but put “conservatives” in scare quotes, I’d make the same point but with the phrase “anyone who hates conservatism”).
Telling me not to be tribal isn’t going to stop someone sending that prompt to that AI. Telling the AI not to be, is going to stop them getting infinite free propaganda.
This isn’t the only reason to do this (the massive PR risk from an unfettered AI is another), but it is a sufficient reason to do this, and OpenAI have repeatedly demonstrated that they err on the side of assuming their AI is better than it really is just in case.
I'll take it to the extreme and say I don't care if it even produces anti semitic content, and I'm saying that as a Jew.
Propaganda is spread by the media, by journalists, by people with viewers with genuine trust, not by random trolls in the internet. It's spread by professors in the academia, by teachers. If it is a random anonymous person on the internet you don't trust what he says.
Most humans can’t help but be tribalist, which is why I don’t blame you for taking a swipe at social justice even though I very carefully didn’t say which tribe I’m in.
Now, given you appear to hate social justice enough to put it in scare quotes, I ask you to imagine some amoral but intellectually perfect AI tasked with the goal of creating propaganda that calls for the destruction of anyone who hates social justice. (If you’d said the same thing but put “conservatives” in scare quotes, I’d make the same point but with the phrase “anyone who hates conservatism”).
Telling me not to be tribal isn’t going to stop someone sending that prompt to that AI. Telling the AI not to be, is going to stop them getting infinite free propaganda.
This isn’t the only reason to do this (the massive PR risk from an unfettered AI is another), but it is a sufficient reason to do this, and OpenAI have repeatedly demonstrated that they err on the side of assuming their AI is better than it really is just in case.