• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Ah yes, the old AI alignment vs. AI ethics slapfight.

    How about we agree that both are concerning?

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      1 year ago

      Both are concerning, but as a former academic to me neither of them are as insidious as the harm that LLMs are already doing to training data. A lot of corpora depend on collecting public online data to construct data sets for research, and the assumption is that it’s largely human-generated. This balance is about to shift, and it’s going to cause significant damage to future research. Even if everyone agreed to make a change right now, the well is already poisoned. We’re talking the equivalent of the burning of Alexandria for linguistics research.