alt Hacker NewsCan we stop conflating LLM models with the companies that created them? It's "…Gemini made up…". Do we not value accuracy? It'd be a whole different story if a human defamed you, rather than a token predictor.
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rsynnott • today at 7:12 AM
"Volkswagen faked emissions tests." "How dare you besmirch the good name of Volkswagen. This evil Volkswagen Passat faked the emissions tests."
Companies are responsible for the bad things they make; the things themselves are, by definition, blameless.
jjj123 • yesterday at 4:26 PM
Why shouldn’t they be conflated? Google made the LLM, it is responsible for the LLMs output.
I mean, no, I don’t think some Google employee tuned the LLM to produce output like this, but it doesn’t matter. They are still responsible.
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LLMs have no sovereignty, identity, or accountability - they are computer programs.
We do not blame computer programs when they have bugs or make mistakes - we blame the human being who made them.
This has always been the case since we have created anything, dating back even tens of thousands of years. You absolutely cannot just unilaterally decide to change that now based on a whim.