> This all seems premature. So far we have something that can generate text and pictures based on other text and pictures ?
I think the reasoning is that at one time Social Media was just a few sites where people could share photos and fun articles they'd read - and it turned into a privacy/hate speech/monopoly minefield that no one is sure is completely good for society and now is impossible to control.
> why do you have to control anything? Again the government knowing no bounds
Because most countries have laws about discrimination, promoting hate, inciting hatred, meddling with elections etc.
There's nothing here that wasn't included as part of the Bletchley declaration about AI safety and signed by just about all the well known AI players including democratically elected governments last month.
Elites controlling everything is why the couple thousand years prior to the 1900s almost everybody in the world lived in conditions that would be considered abject poverty today.
All I'm saying is that's not an excuse for deregulation, it's literally a reason to do more regulation. Open source and distributed social media exists, that doesn't mean we should let meta do whatever it wants.
E: A lot of the libertarian rhetoric here falls apart when you examine other monopolistic situations like water or electricity. You need massive datacenters to run these applications. That gives the corporations who can operate that capital advantages that lead to them owning spheres of computing like AI. The only way to address that monopoly power is government action, unless you like the negative market externalities created by those monopolies (maybe you own equity in a technology company). Frankly, even if the EU gets it wrong the first time, I am much happier with their approach of trying something than I am with the United States approach of "we need to innovate at all costs! What if china catches up?!". I've had enough hysterics from free market people who think gigantic tech interests can do no wrong, or who are under the naive impression that the open source community can create these models without the backing of big capital.
So would Google or any obscure forums.
Just like fraud, the optimal amount of negativity in a technology is never zero. Gotta accept some amount of issues to maximize the benefits to drawbacks ratio.
