Disclaimer: I am asking this for a college class. I need to find an example of AI being used unethically. I figured this would be one of the best places to ask. Maybe this could also serve as a good post to collect examples.
So what have you got?
Disclaimer: I am asking this for a college class. I need to find an example of AI being used unethically. I figured this would be one of the best places to ask. Maybe this could also serve as a good post to collect examples.
So what have you got?
Excelled point. I think there are some legitimate uses of AI. Especially in image processing for science related topics.
But for the most part, almost every common use is unethical. Whether it be the energy demands, (and its contributions to climate change), the theft of intellectual property, the spread of misinformation, and so much more. Overall, it’s a huge net negative on society.
I remember hearing about the lawyer one. IIRC chatGPT was citing laws that didn’t even exist. How do you not check what it wrote? You wouldn’t blindly accept predictive word typing with your phones keyboard and autocorrect. So why would you blindly trust a fancier autocorrect?
The most common uses of AI are not in the headlines. Your email spam filter is AI.
You are being a little bit pedantic. People talking about “AI” today are talking about “LLMs”, not the older tech that turned out not to actually be “AI”. (Rather like the current stuff isn’t actually “AI”.)
You should be accurate with your language if you’re going to claim a whole industry is unethical. And it’s also important to make a distinction between the technology and the implementation of the technology. LLMs can be trained and used in ethical ways
I’m not really sure if I want to agree here. We’re currently in the middle of some hype wave concerning LLMs. So most people mean that when talking about “AI”. Of course that’s wrong. I tend to use the term “machine learning” if I don’t want to confuse people with a spoiled term.
And I must say, most (not all) machine learning is done in a problematic way. Tesla cars have been banned from companies parking lots, your Alexa saves your private conversations in the cloud, the algorithms that power the web weigh down on society and they spy on me. The successfull companies build upon copyright-theft or personal data from their users. And all of that isn’t really transparent to anyone. And oftentimes it’s opt-out if we get a choice at all. But of course there are legitimate interests. I believe a dishwasher or spamfilter would be trained ethically. Probably also the image detection for medical applications.