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usualgerman  ·  36 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men

How do you prevent a person from pirating software? I don’t think you could have a super advanced server farm, for someone with money could probably daisey chain enough computers and run a simple AI instance without needing an entire datacenter. Certainly enough to create something like an AI Twitter bot spreading disinformation to rubes who don’t bother to fact check. Maybe that can convince people that Haitians eat cats on Bastille Day. Maybe it convinced them that Biden is dead and replaced by an actor. Depending on how clever the bot is and how credulous the target audience is, you can probably incept someone to be a lone wolf terrorist.

But what exact thing do you prevent here? Limit the number of GPUs (which are also used for bitcoin mining) computers themselves? Hard drives? Given how easy it is to download software, I can’t imagine that you could honestly expect to stop people from downloading software — we’ve been failing at that since Napster in 1990.