Over the past few days on Lobsters, I've put up with yet another complaint about anticapitalists. How dare we problematize the default economic paradigm!?
Today on Lobsters, people are surprised that #MechanicalTurk laborers are using LLMs to complete questionnaires which would be used to train LLMs. Why are they so surprised? This is the race to the bottom which capitalism desires!
If you want to know why people don't trust #OpenAI or Microsoft or Google to fix a broken faux-#AGI#chatbot#LLM, consider that using suicidal teens for A/B testing was regarded as perfectly fine by a Silicon Valley "health" startup developing "#AI"-based suicide prevention tools.
(Aside: This is also where we get when techbros start doing faux-utilitarian moral calculus instead of just not doing obviously unethical shit.)
Even more than not wanting cars to do it, I don't want an #LLM to solve the #TrolleyProblem.
There's reason to suppose a sample rectruited from #MechanicalTurk users isn't so great, but even if the results DON'T bear out, this is terrifying, because these researchers apparently did all this work without it once occuring to them what a horrible idea this would be.