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Comment by sneak

3 months ago

Not teaching me technical details of chemical weapons, or the etymology of racial slurs is indeed censorship.

Apple Intelligence won’t proofread a draft blog post I wrote about why it’s good for society to discriminate against the choices people make (and why it’s bad to discriminate against their inbuilt immutable traits).

It is astounding to me the hand-wringing over text generators generating text, as if automated text generation could somehow be harmful.

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scarface_74  3 months ago

> Not teaching me technical details of chemical weapons, or the etymology of racial slurs is indeed censorship.

https://chatgpt.com/share/67996bd1-6960-8010-9578-8a70d61992...

I asked it about the White racial slur that is the same as a snack and the one that I only heard from George Jefferson in the 80s and it gave an etymology for both. I said both words explicitly.

> It is astounding to me the hand-wringing over text generators generating text, as if automated text generation could somehow be harmful.

Do you remember how easily early chatbots could go off the rails based on simple prompts without any provacation? No business wants their LLM based service to do that.

chgs  3 months ago

> as if automated text generation could somehow be harmful.

“The pen is mightier than the sword” is not a new phrase

  • sneak  3 months ago

    That refers to publishing. Chatbots don’t publish, they generate text files.

    Text files are not dangerous or mighty. Publishing is. Publishing is not under discussion here.

    Just because both are comprised of text does not mean that they are remotely the same thing.