Comment by SAI_Peregrinus
19 days ago
Or it'll end up like California cancer warnings: every news site will put the warning on, just in case, making it worthless.
19 days ago
Or it'll end up like California cancer warnings: every news site will put the warning on, just in case, making it worthless.
… or the sesame seed labeling law that resulted in sesame seeds being added to everything.
https://apnews.com/article/sesame-allergies-label-b28f8eb3dc...
Wow, it's always amazing to me how the law of unintended consequences (with capitalistic incentives acting as the Monkey's Paw) strikes everytime some well-intended new law gets passed.
As someone who is allergic to sesame, that is insanely annoying.
I don't like the opposite any more though, i.e. commercial food being effectively limited to the lowest common denominator of allergens and other dietary as well as religious restrictions. I see that happen a lot more than this one example and it doesn't even need any laws to cause it.
There just can’t be a way to discriminate on the spectrum from “we use AI to tidy up the spelling and grammar” to “we just asked ChatGPT to write a story on x”, so the disclaimer will make it look like everyone just asked ChatGPT.
>There just can’t be a way to discriminate on the spectrum from “we use AI to tidy up the spelling and grammar” to “we just asked ChatGPT to write a story on x”
Why though? Did the AI play the role of an editor or did it play the role of a reporter seems like a clear distinction to me and likely anyone else familiar enough with how journalism works.
People know what it _should_ mean, but if you say that it’s fine to have an AI editor, then there will be a bunch of people saying something like “my reporting is that x is a story, and my editor, ChatGPT, just tidied that idea up into a full story”. There’s all sorts of hoops people can jump through like that. So you end up putting a banner on all AI, or only penalizing the honest people who follow the distinction that’s supposed to exist.
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I'm fine with that. I want neither AI-hallucinated stories nor AI-expanded fluff. If it's not worth it for a real human editor it's probably not worth reading.
I just came across this for the first time. I ordered a precision screw driver kit and it came with a cancer warning on it. I was really taken aback and then learned about this.
Some legislation which sounds good in concept and is well-intended ends up being having little to no positive impact in practice. But it still leaves businesses with ongoing compliance costs/risks, taxpayers footing the bill for an enforcement bureaucracy forever and consumers with either annoying warning interruptions or yet more 'warning message noise'.
It's odd that legislators seem largely incapable of learning from the rich history of past legislative mistakes. Regulation needs to be narrowly targeted, clearly defined and have someone smart actually think through how the real-world will implement complying as well as identifying likely unintended consequences and perverse incentives. Another net improvement would be for any new regs passed to have an automatic sunset provision where they need to be renewed a few years later under a process which makes it easy to revise or relax certain provisions.
It makes sense once you understand law makers generally care about their careers more than the state/country/citizens.
Most of it is performative law making.
Yup. Or like "necessary cookies" that aren't all that necessary when it works just fine without.
Just because you doing notice that it is not working properly, that doesn't mean you haven't broken anything.
If you don't notice then it was probably not something you considered essential. Breaking the tracking of you and your personal information is kind of the point.
Well, they're necessary if you're spying on your visitors.
Known by the state of cancer to cause California. I do think P65 warnings are pretty useful for the most part jokes aside
Essentially useless if everyone slaps on that label. Kinda like hospital alarm fatigue.
But this just my uninformed opinion, perhaps those that work in the health industry think differently.
Maybe it’s not a fair comparison, but I think it’s been shown that tobacco warnings are effective even though they’re so common to be “fatigued”.
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But that is because the requirement is binary - warning vs. no warning. This problem doesn't happen if the requirement is to disclose what was used although it could still lead to other issues.
I don't know of anyone (seriously not one person) who actually believes those labels. And the reason why is precisely because the government was foolish enough to put them on everything under the sun. Now nobody listens to them because the seriousness got diluted.