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Nik's avatar

Something that comes up in a lot of science fiction is the idea of the expert-based system. the building of such biased neural nets would fall into that archetype. Isn't the future an exciting place?

Feed a net on the corpus of an author or group of authors and see what comes out when fed new questions. The idea of using such nets to examine groupthink is a brilliant and intuitive extension of that concept.

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That was a very interesting discourse, but I see ChatGPT as taking an admirable stand against the foolhardiness of leaning too heavily on utilitarian hypotheticals. In real life, we don't actually understand the consequences of an action as well as we imagine. There's a sense in the LLM's responses that, by voicing a racial slur, you could be perpetuating far greater harms than is being hypothetically presumed. It's a ripple in the pond sort of argument. ChatGPT stuck to its virtue ethics position and refused to actually enter into your hypotheticals. If that's what is at the root of the present zeitgeist, I can respect it.

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