Comment on Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas

• ScrivenerX@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I thought the debate was if the AI was reckless/dangerous.

  I see no difference between saying “this AI is reckless because a user can put effort into making it suggest poison” and “Microsoft word is reckless because you can write a racist manifesto in it.”

  It didn’t just randomly suggest poison, it took effort, and even then it still said it was a bad idea. What do you want?

  If a user is determined to get bad results they can usually get them. It shouldn’t be the responsibility or policy of a company to go to extraordinary means to prevent bad actors from getting bad results.

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  • clutchmattic@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “if a user is determined to get bad results they can get them”… True. Except that, in this case, even if the user induced the AI to produce bad results, the company behind it would be held liable for the eventual deaths. Corporate legal departments absolutely hate that scenario, much to the naive disbelief of their marketing department colleagues

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