alt Hacker NewsReverse the situation and the media would also turn that into outrage. Imagine someone shoots up a sheriff's office and then it turns out they declared it to some chatbot, and the AI company failed to detect and report it, and "didn't push back enough" whatever that would mean, and hence the AI was implicitly complicit etc. That would also be a major PR catastrophe.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Same as with social media platforms. That's because only a tiny tiny sliver is for true privacy when that means "bad things might happen" or bad people, such as your political enemies, may do stuff you don't want.
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With this logic, ISPs should be monitoring all texts and internet traffic. Might as well extend an open line to the gov’t to ensure it escalates even more appropriately and faster
if they keep a tap on you, how long before that data gets used for ads or sold to an ad agency?
There's a term I can't remember for the analysis error of collapsing an entire heterogeneous population into one group for analysis.
The story you're describing would have triggered outrage. And this story will trigger outrage. And generally, the people who will be outraged are different people and we don't have to treat those two outrage reactions as morally equivalent.
>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