>Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

In my opinion, if the company is allowed to see the data and train on it, then they are also responsible for reporting stuff like this. Without knowing the data licensing agreement the lady had with Anthropic, if she agreed to letting Anthropic see her data, then they should do stuff like this. If she didn't agree, then I wouldn't condemn Anthropic for failing to report an attack

The second order effects of what you are suggesting are a total surveillance state.

It looks inevitable to me. Technological ability ushers in the new social realities. The industrial revolution turned around how we live, intelligence on tap being able to interpret everything in real time is indeed leading down to the total surveillance state direction. I don't see anything that may stop it. You will have to run constant real-time surveillance systems on all your devices and anything that doesn't run those will be illegal, with secureboot on steroids. Due to the convenience benefits, people will willingly give access to cloud-based AI services to all their information, all their plans and documents and calendar and email and everything. And you blink twice and it all becomes mandatory, and you will be an extremist if you don't want that, because why would you have anything to hide? "Just follow the law, follow the rules, and you'll be fine", that will be the slogan.

Stories like this article have zero effect on normal people. They see a crime being prevented, which is good. You have to bring a story where a sympathetic character is getting the short end of the stick somehow.

You would still be able to not write everything into a LLM? But yea the surveillance aspect is dystopian. I would not be surprised if Facebook, twitter and co already know a lot but have simply not reported it. Now the LLM follows the rules.

Unworkable in practice.

You would expect them to enforce every possible legal standard, in every jurisdiction.

Why stop with criminal law? It should flag torts too, right?

Absurd.

Oh, it's back up! Is there a post mortem?

Update: I heard Stack got DDOSed

While I agree that "murder" is the wrong word, there is an angle that you are missing.

Drug dealers will lace "normal" drugs with fentanyl. It gives a "different buzz". The customer knows they are buying "normal" drugs, and there is no quality control, so lacing happens. If the dealer messes up how much they lace, it is easy to add too much (because a small amount t of fentanyl goes a long way), and your customer ODs.

I’ve heard from an HSI friend that a lot more of the fentanyl deaths happen from accidental exposure in their drugs from shared surfaces. For example, somebody buying cocaine that was cut up on a table that was previously used to cut up fent and not properly sanitized.

Manslaughter is the word you are looking for, they don't intend for the person to die.

I was indeed missing that angle. Thanks for mentioning it

It is typically laced into other drugs. A small amount of fentanyl is highly powerful, so if you mix it into heroine, you get a different buzz. But if you (a drug dealer, not a chemist) mess up and drop too much, then your customer will accidentally OD.

Indeed

impudence

Like others have said: Tesla is the bath guy here. I'm pretty sure most people are focused on the other ways Tesla has been fing around that they just haven't gotten this far down the list.

Also, there's something special about tractors. Their owners (farmers) are both willing and capable of repairing tractors, in general, so John Deere is demonized for taking that ability away. Where as Tesla's owners are comfortable not changing their own oil, so "less" was taken away. (Yes, I know Tesla doesn't have engine oil, don't get hung up on that)

A tractor - and all farm equipment - is ridiculously expensive, the core platform is not much different from previous generations and they are used by a respected segment of our society to grow us food. All of this adds up to make JD's impact large and feel much worse than the relative nitpicks we have with many car manufacturers.

>yet here is a one of those foundational stories

I don't think this is a "foundational story". I, for one, am a Christian and I have never heard of these people. I also don't recognize any "Saints"

>Yes you may vilify the out group but are the basic dynamics of helping your fellow person out really so different across space and time?

I believe that the bible teaches the purpose of life is to glorify the God of the universe. If a religion's "purpose of life" is about "interacting with other humans, and not about God" then we have opposing "purposes". I saw something similar about Secular Humanists: they claimed they align with the bible "Love God and love your Neighbor"... but they don't believe God exists, so they - on a fundamental level - can't follow thay commandment.

The Bible teaches a lot of different things. It's not one message, as much as people want it to be.

>Also I only realized after finishing the article what a breath of fresh air it was to read something that came straight from another human's brain without LLM intermediation.

I found it a little difficult to follow

The article mentions: a 3rd party company will scrub the data amd Google will promise not to attempt to reconstruct PII from the data.

That is good enough for me. If they violate their promise to the judge, the court can lay the hammer down on them

Good, they never break promises, so it should be fine. It also implies you can reconstruct personal information from the data. Perfect.

Maybe we can all be blessed with 2 quarters from a multi-year class action in a decade

Don't forget the eventual settlement for $10 worth of coupons for purchases at the company.

How is the court going to ensure they stick to that promise? Or is this basically just a pinky promise?

Yes, but did they _pinky promise?_

Here, you dropped this: /s

I love the /s