alt Hacker NewsIt also locks up things for homeowners that want to DIY a solution fixing a house. Obviously people fix things without looking at the codes (and there are plenty of horror stories out there), but if we opened up house codes for people to actually look at and refer to, homeowners could potentially better find how to do things properly, especially with AI.
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justinclift • today at 3:27 AM
> especially with AI.
While AI models still hallucinate commonly, this might not be the best use of it.
The downsides of the occasional hallucinated answer for building standards seems like it could be pretty bad. Seems much worse than the upsides?
This would potentially lead to a whole lot of injured people. There are already DIY jobs that are safe for homeowners to do. But some really should be done by a professional.
It's one thing to make the POP3 standard free; worst case your mail gets lost. It's another to make the standard for the electrical code free, so that people can incorrectly implement its quite complicated rules, and result in things like fires and electrocution.