If you’re an average citizen, “Give us a call if it happens again. Probably just kids playing a prank. Sure, we see the video, but it’s not enough to take action on.”
If you’re a wealthy citizen with some connections, “Attempted murder.”
You can also be an average citizen, or a wealthy citizen with some connections, “I’m a police officer that specifically joined the force because I really want to shoot someone. I responded to your call because I’m looking for any reason to pull my weapon.”
I don't understand how people are compelled to violence by a technology they barely understand. The incredible amount of misinformation in Luddite circles leads to harassment and attempted murder. There is so much wrong with the world and yet one of the biggest concerns Americans have is with technologies like ChatGPT.
> don't understand how people are compelled to violence by a technology they barely understand
Altman has literally been preaching AI as an agent of impending doom since ChatGPT [1]. If you keep telling folks the thing you’re building might mean “lights out” for humanity, some people will take you seriously.
To be clear, this doesn’t excuse the idiot attempted murderer. But dialing up hysteria to scare up investors doesn’t come for free.
Not that any of this is particularly funny, but this bit in the manifesto:
> "If by some miracle you live"
is pretty amusing in the context of
1. trying to set fire to an iron gate many tens of feet from anything flammable and
2. failing to break a glass door with a patio chair.
"Check this shit out motherfucker [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do]" - dril
Maybe all The Resistance could manage to send him from the future was a note of encouragement instead of a 7’ cyborg.
I’ll be the one to say it.
If you’re an average citizen, “Give us a call if it happens again. Probably just kids playing a prank. Sure, we see the video, but it’s not enough to take action on.”
If you’re a wealthy citizen with some connections, “Attempted murder.”
You can also be an average citizen, or a wealthy citizen with some connections, “I’m a police officer that specifically joined the force because I really want to shoot someone. I responded to your call because I’m looking for any reason to pull my weapon.”
I don't understand how people are compelled to violence by a technology they barely understand. The incredible amount of misinformation in Luddite circles leads to harassment and attempted murder. There is so much wrong with the world and yet one of the biggest concerns Americans have is with technologies like ChatGPT.
> don't understand how people are compelled to violence by a technology they barely understand
Altman has literally been preaching AI as an agent of impending doom since ChatGPT [1]. If you keep telling folks the thing you’re building might mean “lights out” for humanity, some people will take you seriously.
To be clear, this doesn’t excuse the idiot attempted murderer. But dialing up hysteria to scare up investors doesn’t come for free.
[1] https://fortune.com/2023/06/08/sam-altman-openai-chatgpt-wor...