Comment by djoldman
19 hours ago
> Jacob Irwin, a 30-year-old man on the autism spectrum...
> This is a story about OpenAI's failure to implement basic safety measures for vulnerable users. It's about a company that, according to its own former employee quoted in the WSJ piece, has been trading off safety concerns “against shipping new models.” It's about corporate negligence that led to real harm.
One wonders if there is any language whatsoever that successfully communicates: "buyer beware" or "use at your own risk." Especially for a service/product that does not physically interact with the user.
The dichotomy between the US's focus on individual liberties and the seemingly continual erosion of personal responsibility is puzzling to say the least.
Liberty for me; accountability for thee.
> personal responsibility is puzzling to say the least.
It is pretty difficult to blame the users when there are billions of dollars being spent trying to figure out the best ways to manipulate them into the outcomes that the companies want
What hope does your average person have against a machine that is doing its absolute best to weaponize their own shortcomings against themselves, for profit?
> What hope does your average person have...?
The average person should not use a product/service if they don't understand, or are unwilling to shoulder, the risks.
Virtually everyone regularly uses products and services that they don't fully understand like insurance, vehicles, planes, healthcare, financial products, etc. That's just the reality of living in modern society. No single person has any reasonable hope of understanding all of the wildly complicated risk models they interact with.
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