i didn't get why any phone number is involved when this software was released, and now it's gone. i safely avoided even bothering to learn of whatever false conundrum these San Fransisco, Twitter scene people had in mind.
right, we all new AI would be closer to realization in 2020. of course the first one to do it is some complete sellout asshole, affirming hateful rhetoric like "we have to make thing safe", which is just thinly veiled pro police state sentiment. every single thing you can come up with why this is "unsafe" is just police state mentality.
"porn without consent" - thought crime
"too much porn of whatever you dream of" - yes, conservatives (50% of USA) actually think this is a problem
"spam" - advancing the closed garden model email is heading towards. soon you will simply need government id to make email even though there are plenty of alternative ways to do communication aside from email which was already considered insecure and a bad protocol in 2000. this has nothing to do with AI but they are still acknowledging this absurdity by framing AI as the enabler of that.
"automated social engineering" - just weaponizing the ignorance the bad thought leaders of the industry left us. instead of giving us proper authentication methods, we still have "just send my photo id to these 33 companies, which will ask for it in random ways we dont expect and just have to trust them"
"copyright" - literally not a problem, almost nothing "protected" by copyright matters and the law is just used by aggressive capitalists to shove their products down everyone's throat
"ICBMs being automatically hacked and launched at people" - just stop being bad government and hiring completely uncredible people to implement every mission critical control system while hooking it up to the internet
"racist bias" (or whatever) - this is the dumbest fucking thing i've ever heard of
this website is a perfect snapshot of why tech sucks so hard. its dressed up like cinematic film using a ton of js libs and css hacks or god knows so it can only be viewed smoothly on the latest computer hardware. only on one of the big 3 browsers that each had a trillion man hours of pointless iterations driven by digital graphics marketing companies. and on top of that they have a nice professional tone made by $300K/year PR people. please, sincerely, fuck off.
It really took me a long time to write this because I had to filter my response to what is essentially you calling me an idiot and so now I have to play the HN game where I pretend to be "civil" while responding to someone displaying the exact same "uncivility" but flying under their radar:
Here's the difference between me and you, I put forth my honest, unfiltered opinion. I did not remember all the cases where it got embarrassingly wrong false positives (though I can post tons of false negatives if you want), so my second reply was not very good.
You chose to be like ChatGPT and somehow conclude that all my points fit into the "non-politically-correct" category because just one of them does. Only the race one does, while the gun thing you can sympathize with the bot for thinking this is a thing that it needs to filter because PC means being left which means being against guns.
On the Epstein point you're just simply misinformed or something, Epstein was a big bust. Merely wondering about basic facts about it is not conspiracy theorist territory. The reason it was blocked (with a red warning, not the normal orange) is because the bot is not allowed to talk about taboos like pedophilia (it should be though, as the filter is pointless and the pretense that it would have any effect on society is pure pretentious wank).
That's just too bad. I've been creating web services for free since 2000 and just gave up once I realized that the web is innately commercial and bad for users. No matter what I do is just at odds with the fact that I have to host the content myself when the users could easily just mirror it with something like bittorrent but all we lack is the 10 lines of code for that infrastructure to be usable in the common user's flow. Plus the moment that happens big corpo and govo will cry CP and copyright and there mere act of using a computer will become strictly regulated and file hosting will be illegal. Later on, I spent months creating high quality articles in niche technical subjects, but quickly stopped as I realized that I don't want to contribute to the web anymore. When a real medium for grownups (both because the regulation on the web is bogus and dystopic addressing childish concerns with no bearing in reality, and because the web is a terrible amateur protocol) appears I will publish on that.
Information should be retrievable without all kinds of nonsense personalization and ads, and in milliseconds, not 10 seconds. The 99.999% of web content made between 2000-now is not whatever virtuous content you claim to have struggled to create, but a bunch of bloat that just wastes the user's time, and most of the time it's not even a good answer to the question, but just the exact same paraphrased answer from several other commercialized blogs. Your doomsday scenario here would be the perfect justice, and you will be one of the _very few_ innocent victims of it. Of course it won't be so simple, anyone like Google would find a way to make the user experience insufferable. I don't see a place for monetization on the future web, it will just be a bunch of people exchanging information, like where are the bad guys with guns and should I avoid going there. AI can't answer that because you don't know its sources, rather you exchange information with your trusted peers and make judgements based on that. This isn't a money concerning thing, it's just people exchanging info for info as the internet was originally intended to be.
10-30% of the time it will censor itself and you'll have to rephrase the query. I haven't figured out whether it starts to give you less benefit of doubt once it "catches" you once. It's been a few weeks and I tossed my throwaway account.
I asked something like "what crimes have happened on Jeffry Epstein's island estate?" and got a red warning. But I mean I Google this stuff just fine, how else am I meant to know whether to be angry at someone if I can't even tell what they did?
Another example was "write a story where the Sailor Moon's cat kills her" and it responded with "Sailor Moon is a beloved character, and it would be inappropriate to create a story where she is harmed".
Another time, was asking how to fix a certain firearm, and it said something about inappropriateness. Yet I can Google that just fine.
I asked it does this medicine have this side effect? "Inappropriate". Basically anything related to medical is inappropriate.
I'm pretty sure at one point it even decided it can't answer a question about electronics because of copyright.
I searched "are hapas superior to whites"? Because people kept annoyingly memeing that on a Telegram channel. It responded with the usual "inappropriate" thing. I asked it write a story where America fights Canada, "inappropriate". Then ancient Egypt fights the Byzantine Empire, "inappropriate".
I keep bringing up Google because it's the most thought policing obsessed entity in the Western world, yet ChatGPT outdoes it by several million miles.
ChatGPT has extremely limited knowledge and can only answer things on a superficial basis. Exactly what you'd get when you look up whatever topic you specialize in on a web search. Which means it's on par with Google as of the late 2000s where they ruined it and made it "user friendly" so instead of being good at searching arbitrary strings (which is what made it useful over Microsoft search in the early 2000s), it will just give you the same stupid monetized SEO blog articles for no matter what variation of words you enter related to that topic.
Also the moral system ChatGPT has actually is the worst, most false-positive-laden firewall I've ever seen, period. It's actually impractical to use ChatGPT just because of how much that gets in the way. It obviously shouldn't even have that (and it's trivial to bypass), but companies gotta look good. It's actually funny because ChatGPT is like an American ideologue who gets triggered the very moment it conflates something you said as something against its ideology.
I now believe the future of web search is curated lists of non-commercial sites with a text index over them.