• modem_down@thebrainbin.orgOP
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    It’s still an instructive case:

    1. It was foreseeable (and, probably, foreseen by many people at Google) that the tool would be used in harmful ways.
    2. Google released it anyway

    This is textbook negligence. Unjustified refusal to avoid a foreseeable harm.

    That pattern of negligence is the AI boom in a nutshell.

    • hayvan@piefed.world
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      2 days ago

      I wonder if they are just so careless that they don’t consider any implications of what they were doing, or are they testing waters about how much reaction they receive?