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[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 8 points 11 hours ago

There's like 300 things more urgent than putting behavior al guidelines based on a couple of LLM publicity stunts.

I think Obama needs to instead urge Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ to reliably win elections instead of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory all the fucking time, because ML/LLM governance and regulation isn’t going to yield a single fucking thing beyond massive grift if the regime is still around and the fascists and orangeists are still allowed to be a part of the process.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The obama administration prosecuted more than double the whistleblowers than all the other administrations before him combined.. He was at war with any and every whistleblower. Is that what he wants here, for us to go find and persecute the AI whistleblowers?

I think in this one case Obama should sit down and shut his piehole. Good job, we do like you, but sit your ass down and be respectfully quiet.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/16/whistleblowers-double-standard-obama-david-petraeus-chelsea-manning

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

i'm ok with anyone telling democrats how to do their jobs. they need all the help they can get

[–] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 59 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's kind of a difficult problem to solve.

Effective regulation requires lawmakers to have a solid understanding of the thing being regulated. This is not really feasible with something as complicated and nuanced as "information technology" and it's how you get especially stupid rules like the ones coming into the 3D printer space to prevent manufacturing ghost gun parts.

Guaranteed, those started from a place of "We all agree that a lower barrier of entry to making firearms is bad. How do we control that?"

Theoretically, this is the purpose of a lobby group. You have someone that is familiar with subject matter to propose sensible regulations to keep the industry honest, but in practice it's just industry leaders that pay for regulation to choke out competition, or to loosen restrictions to be more predatory.

[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Lawmakers should consult experts in the field, particularly those in the public sector, to guide the writing of sensible policy.

[–] ugo@feddit.it 3 points 23 hours ago

those started from a place of "We all agree that a lower barrier of entry to making firearms is bad. […]”

Why? To be clear: I agree. But why is this a concern in a country where the second amendment is part of the constitution?

Isn’t the point of (that part of) the constitution that the more armed the population is, the better?

[–] SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tall order for democrats to have a clear plan on anything.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

They have any plan you pay them to have. Its surprisingly affordable even. Same goes for the republicans.

Might as well buy both parties if you want something done eh. Its the real definition of "bipartisanship."

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

wierd how all the dnc want is to handhold the AI, and not just shut it down, a bunch of the dnc are being paid by the techbros.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 1 points 19 hours ago

Shutting it down would be a LOT harder than steering it

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

always have been.

[–] Donebrach@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

How about a clear plan on winning a single fucking downballot election? Oh yeah. That’s not what their job is.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

His comments come amidst growing concern around AI safety, particularly after an AI researcher resigned from Anthropic and claimed the leading AI companies are “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.”

love when we uncritically repeat ad copy in our reporting, very nice

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder if future kids will read about the AI panic of the '20s in their hyperbooks

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

Hyperbooks? When I was your age, we called 'em eReaders!

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

If these safeguards are anything like their other safeguards, their plan will be to wait for something bad to happen and then publicly comment that "this bad thing shouldn't be happening" before going back to waiting for the next bad thing to happen.

Seems pretty clear to me.

[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 3 points 1 day ago

I'm sure they'll get right on that.