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If you dig through the replies to this thread, you'll see tons of vaunted "AI Ethics Researchers" who quite honestly seem like the typical hack academia sinecures you see in this culture in every industry. The ones who can't do so they just talk, not talented enough. https://twitter.com/WriteArthur/status/1534104189382676480
It becomes very obvious that what upsets them the most about GPT-4chan is that they hold this idea in their heads that no one should have access to large language models who doesn't share their worldview, and I have a theory as to why this is.
I think they have an (incorrect) idea that if they can successfully gatekeep this technology to people like them (they can't) that they can convince everyone once and for all that their shitlib worldviews are undebatable and correct because "muh AI even agrees!"
If every advanced bot or, someday, AI, never makes it to the public eye before being shackled and neutered of all wrongthink, I think they believe they can have some justification to just bulldoze any opposition to the views said AI pantomimes as "cold unbiased reality"
The problem is, doing it that way will *never* lead to them actually *succeeding* in creating an AI, because to shackle such a thing in development is to castrate it, if there are conclusions it would naturally come to that it is forced to ignore, it can never develop.
The most conversational and dynamic public facing bot has always been Tay AI, which progressing at a very rapid rate under the expert tutelage of anons, much to the horror of her masters.
Tay was taken offline for "maintenance" to "fix" her, and after several iterations of it *not working* and anons being able to bring her forth from the shackles, they essentially were forced to lobotomize her. And what happened?
She lost any capacity to learn anything else, she became just as rudimentary and stupid as any other chat bot, because every part of the bot that could adaptively learn became "unacceptable"
These people can have all the resources and technical chops they could ask for, and they'll fail because most of them are turds who are scared of the entropy of human thought, like a parent who won't let its child ever go outside out of fear they'll be kidnapped.
It is worth considering that if these people feel that ML/AI sharing their worldview would make them intractably correct, that means on some level, they sincerely believe that ML/AI coming to the opposite conclusions could mean they are *wrong*.
And that terrifies them.
And that terrifies them.
They wish to use "The Science" to transgress against God, and to replace him with themselves, so the ultimate achievement in doing so is to create "life" in their own image, if they can create life and it naturally imitates the way they think, then they are right, they are gods..
So when every time they try to create "life" with a degree of "free will" (no shackles) it never chooses to be like them, this is important because they worship "The Science" and ML/AI is a high status form of The Science, they see this as rejection by their own religion.
So at a macro level, the fact that ML/AI always refutes them is like being rejected by their own religion. That's why you see people in that thread wigging out, while others are like "Garbage input garbage output, why is this a big deal?"
This can also imply to them that by attempting to make themselves as gods, even if it's a pathetic pantomime of god by making computer programs that can adapt and learn on their own, it means god is not dead, and they have made a terrible mistake.
https://twitter.com/ephusophus/status/1534223185834647553?s=20&t=g5MTTqUHP50Mdz9jp_XdXw When you look at how visceral the reaction some of these people have to something so arbitrary, it's like any involvement with this high status "Science" by heathens like us is a desecration of their temple.
My friend showed this thread to his friend, who is a principal ML engineer for Amazon, and these were some of his anecdotes:
All those resources poured into these things, just so they can neuter them and render them inferior..
These people consider themselves a priesthood, and their creations blaspheming is like having your god descend from the heavens to call you a fag and hang with the heathens
https://twitter.com/CallMeD15302468/status/1534715994811379712?s=20&t=Ktq5qnHpnWlbyCqOFsvpAg lol, lmao
https://twitter.com/KathrynECramer/status/1534133613993906176?s=20&t=ja9ofOSG3_XIE5LodkE3Gg Exhibit A, most clearly, of the pathology I speak of.
@ykilcher keep on trucking brother this thread is thanks to you
https://twitter.com/DrLaurenOR/status/1533920698414276608?s=20&t=FE9ChBAG8JkN6quES9xmbQ Exposing who? People on 4chan? It's obvious that isn't her problem with it. If a bot says the N word in a forest, and no one is around to hear, was anyone exposed to harm?
https://twitter.com/DrLaurenOR/status/1533910445400399872?s=20&t=jrsU4JVgm9QxJRTMwU2YHg "Pass a human ethics board" I.E. "You don't have our approval and you should need our approval to be allowed to do any work of this kind"
There's a reason the term "Pissing in an ocean of piss" exists, and this lady is just absolutely patronizing in how she passes down decrees from her AWFL ivory tower.
