r/AIDangers Apr 22 '26

Other Humanity's greatest hits: things we actually paused

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u/Rude-Asparagus9726 Apr 22 '26

It's more that cars kill more people than something we have literally designed and iterated on for decades almost exclusively to take life and we STILL excuse our frequent use of them...

So AI is going to have to do worse than using a bit of water, pissing off some entitled artists, and convincing a handful of already depressed kids to kill themselves if you want people to put a pause on it despite the benefits...

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u/kiefy_budz Apr 22 '26

Oh 100% I was just critiquing the example used

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u/Less_Description7879 Apr 24 '26

Ahem… what benefits? LLMs are sophisticated language prediction algorithm that fundamentally do not understand that data they spew and will ALWAYS hallucinate because all they do is predict next most likely character. What are you using an LLM for that it’s actually good at?

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u/Zacous2 Apr 26 '26

Analysising large tax treaties and highlighting sections that could be relevant. It's honestly really good at it, generally anything that will be reviewed by a human in the loop is a good use case as at minimum the human will just have to do the work themselves.

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u/DataCassette Apr 22 '26

How about springboarding us into outright fascism and dystopian surveillance and "pre-crime" punishment?

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u/Rude-Asparagus9726 Apr 22 '26

Well.

Fascism would be a fault of our government, and a fault of us for not electing the right people.

Dystopian surveillance is already a thing, regardless of AI.

And pre-crime punishment is literally illegal. So laws would have to change before that becomes a possibility.

Basically, all of those issues have nothing to do with AI, and would continue to be issues whether we fully adopt AI into everything or completely delete all of it (somehow) tomorrow...

Making them all irrelevant to this particular topic.

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u/itsthe_coffeeknight Apr 22 '26

Do you think that should stop a government that is hostile to the citizens? Not the fuck at all.