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Comment by olalonde

19 hours ago

These examples aren't really similar. None of those situations involve harming and lying to their own customers.

Nonsense; the claim was that they wouldn't do anything that would mean they'd be

> risking massive lawsuits and a total loss of trust

Evidence of the massive lawsuits and lack of trust seems pretty relevant.

  • By "loss of trust", I meant that this is something they would risk losing a lot of users over, which isn't the case with the other lawsuits. There is a massive distinction between fighting third parties in a legal grey area and committing blatant fraud against your own users. Even if you have no regards for ethics, intentionally shipping a noop "do not train" toggle offers negligible upside for a massive downside.

    • They're being sued for several issues that resulted in the deaths of users; that's not fraud, but it is against their users.

      The parallel still holds, and the information is still on the page I linked.

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