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An AI Just Attempted Murder... Allegedly... by SomeOrdinaryGamers [21:15 min] Video (inv.nadeko.net)

submitted 5 days ago by thingsiplay@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Sure it's a bit clickbait, he does that often. Its not real attempted of murder, off course. The Ai chatbots can't do that, without having access and power to all control systems. The only thing that they "could" do is, playing with the psychology in the chat to achieve a goal (maybe to ask someone to murder someone else for them).

What unsettles me most is, if Ai tools like these are used as advice to harm other people or to gain power position. And these LLM models suggest a few operations the person could do. That is the most alarming thing for me. Weak, dumb or humans in a bad situation are the real risk. The same people who would do that if a human told them, and it makes no difference to them if its a human or robot talking to them. Maybe they believe in what the Ai promises them.

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Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! This time we take a look at something alarming I saw pop in my feed. An AI was recently accused of letting a human being die in order to save itself, is this just misinfo? Let's find out! Thanks for watching!

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[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It DOES matter. Directly. Fully.

If people think that the unthinking "AI" actually has autonomy, they will be less likely to hold the people responsible to account.

Why do you not understand that? It is a critical fact of the matter that modern day "AI" does not think nor want, because then responsibility of its actions should then rightfully fall on to who set up the Rube Goldberg machine with machetes on it.

This is not a machine going postal. It's a dangerous product they've been allowed to sell.

We're trying to impress on you the importance of culpability. If it thinks for itself, then it becomes a defective product. If it doesn't, it's a dangerous product.

It's the difference between someone selling a car that happens to break down easily, and one where the brake lines randomly fall off because they fucked up the design and didn't want to spend the money to do it right... It's the difference between accidents and neglegence. This "AI" shit? Pure greed-fed neglegence.

The wording in the article is on purpose. They want you to think it doesn't matter while they're anthropomorphizing it, FFS. They want you to blame the bot, not the guy who made the obviously dangerous bot and then sold it to the world for billions.