Comment by loremium
1 day ago
This is assuming people are responsible and with good will. But how many of the gun victims each year would be dead if there were no guns? How many radiation victims would there be without the invention of nuclear bombs? safety is indeed a property of knowledge.
Just imagine how many people would not die in traffic incidents if the knowledge of the wheel had been successfully hidden?
Nice try but the causal chain isn't as simple as wheels turning → dead people.
If someone wants to make a bomb, chatgpt saying "sorry I can't help with that" won't prevent that someone from finding out how to make one.
Sure, but if ten-thousand people might sorta want to make a bomb for like five minutes, chatgpt saying "nope" might prevent nine-thousand nine-hundred and ninety nine of those, at which point we might have a hundred fewer bombings.
They’d need to sustain interest through the buying process, not get caught for super suspicious purchases, then successfully build a bomb without blowing themselves up. Not a five minute job.
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If ChatGPT provided instructions on how make a bomb, most people would probably blow themsevles up before they finish.
That's really not true, by that logic LLMs provide no value which is obviously false.
It's one thing to spend years studying chemistry, it's another to receive a tailored instruction guide in thirty seconds. It will even instruct you how to dodge detection by law enforcement, which a chemistry degree will not.
> That's really not true, by that logic LLMs provide no value which is obviously false.
Way to leep to a (wrong) conclusion. I can lookup a word in a Dictionary.app, I can google it or I can pick up a phisical dictionary book and look it up.
You don't even need to look to far: Fight Club (the book) describes how to make a bomb pretty accurately.
If you're worrying that "well you need to know which books to pick up at the library"...you can probably ask chatgpt. Yeah it's not as fast, but if you think this is what stops everyone from making a bomb, then well...sucks to be you and live in such fear?