Comment by jacquesm
2 days ago
Yes, it's quite hard to believe. That's why one single example is sufficient for me. Then I'll be happy to extrapolate that one example to many more so it is a low bar I would say, given the OPs statement about how common this is. Note the 'easily'.
It's strange to me that you read the word 'easily' as 'commonly', these are unrelated terms. But I suppose I am fine with saying that reports of death threats against users who use AI are quite common, certainly any navigation of one of the more controversial subreddits where these topics come up is sure to reveal that users are reporting this.
You can find more public accounts, such as by artists or game companies, about death threats they've received.
Great. If they can find such public accounts, so can you.
Find us one. So far, every post you have made has convinced me of the opposite of what you claim because you haven't been able to produce even one example. This isn't a matter of proving that such threats are common, it's about proving the exist.
> so can you.
I don't feel obligated to provide evidence based on some vague suspicion about "verified" accounts. If they want to find it, go ahead. Why is that such a heavy ask?
Here, https://www.reddit.com/r/aiwars/search/?q=death+threat&cId=7...
The problem is, of course, that now you can say "but those aren't verified!" and now it's tossed back at me to keep trying to meet some "bar" for this.
Or this, https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/postal-game-develop...
Oh gosh but no arrests made, oh my god it's not VERIFIED to some whatever standard. Literally just google it if you want to know.
Look into this yourself, why am I doing this for you? Why do I care?
> So far, every post you have made has convinced me of the opposite of what you claim because you haven't been able to produce even one example.
Absence of evidence is not evidence. If you find yourself swayed that way, evaluate your epistemology.
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So you've somehow avoided seeing all the other stories over the years from people who received death threats over far more asinine topics? I'll be honest, I can't be bothered to do research on this, but the base rate is so high that the real question in my mind is whether the presence of death threats related to a topic is diagnostic of anything at all.