Dispatch #26: General Purpose is an Accountability Loophole If they don't say what it's for, we can't say if it works. Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zs6... Podcast: pnc.st/s/faster-and... - ThreadSky

fasterandworse.com • 3 days ago

Dispatch #26: General Purpose is an Accountability Loophole

If they don't say what it's for, we can't say if it works.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zs6BXdesaw

Podcast: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse/e884f2ff/general-purpose-is-an-accountability-loophole

Comments

fasterandworse.com•3 days ago

Because a calculator is a device made for a specific purpose, our trust in it would be immediately corrupted if it were to give an incorrect answer. It would be useless.

If you take away the specific purpose you also take away the criteria to determine if something works or not.

fasterandworse.com•3 days ago

Creators of LLMs benefit from the general purposeness of their products because we have no constraints on what it means for them to *work*

They can always escape accountability because a "use case" is an abstract concept that the products will never be optimised for.

fasterandworse.com•1 day ago

It's important to recognise when they don't assert any purpose for *us*.

It doesn't mean there isn't one for *them*.

fasterandworse.com•2 days ago

This should be filed here:

https://bsky.app/profile/stephenkb.bsky.social/post/3lrifcejk3k2w

fasterandworse.com•3 days ago

In short: It's a cult

fasterandworse.com•3 days ago

also I'm wearing some of @davidgerard.co.uk 's merch in this vid

junipersbird.bsky.social•3 days ago

General purposelessness

aetherclaw.bsky.social•2 days ago

the very act of training an LLM violates both copyright law, operates under the exact same ethics as mass scale serial rape, and violates countless human rights to an unthinkable degree and must be internationally criminally treated as a crime against humanity.

renderg.host•3 days ago

OpenAI pulled this same trick with their “we’re not aiming to make a profit” line. (Altman literally said “We don’t know how to monetise this. We’re going to build an AGI and ask it”). Take away the success metric and now you can play with the success narrative.

renderg.host•3 days ago

Simon Wardley said the charlatans in tech (referring I think to consultants) always say things like “it’s going to get worse before it gets better” so that they can hedge reality. When it gets better, you thank them. When it gets worse, they say “well I did tell you this would happen”.

renderg.host•3 days ago

“Well we did *say* we weren’t going to make money”

sour-life.bsky.social•1 day ago

📌

Comments

Posting Rules

Reply