Hacker News with Generative AI: Ethics

Anyone who trusts an AI therapist needs their head examined (pluralistic.net)
Anyone who trusts an AI therapist needs their head examined: Same goes for trusting an AI with your trade secrets.
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Mental Health
10 points by hn_acker 11 hours ago | 8 comments
The Nobel Duel (asimov.press)
What would you give for a Nobel Prize?
Nobel Prize, Science, Competition, Ethics
76 points by mailyk 3 days ago | 7 comments
Jeremy Howard taught AI and helped invent ChatGPT. He fears he's failed (2023) (abc.net.au)
Jeremy Howard has watched his vision for the AI future crumble, even as the technology has improved.
Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Ethics, Jeremy Howard
20 points by amrrs 4 days ago | 1 comments
What "Open" Means (mozilla.org)
What does it mean to be "open" in the era of AI?
Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, Ethics
14 points by Brysonbw 5 days ago | 1 comments
The Physiology of Foie: Why Foie Gras Is Not Unethical (2019) (seriouseats.com)
I haven't always been comfortable with foie gras, though I've spent a good chunk of my life working with it.
Food, Animal Welfare, Ethics
5 points by Tomte 6 days ago | 5 comments
Why I'm Boycotting AI (unherd.com)
Sam Altman is the next profiteer promising liberation.
Artificial Intelligence, Opinion, Technology, Ethics
67 points by wyclif 7 days ago | 173 comments
The Great Scrape (bearblog.dev)
LLMs feed on data. Vast quantities of text are needed to train these models, which are in turn receiving valuations in the billions. This data is scraped from the broader internet, from blogs, websites, and forums, without the author's permission and all content being opt-in by default.
Data Scraping, Web Content, Ethics, AI
13 points by Tomte 8 days ago | 1 comments
The Blood on the Keyboard (historynewsnetwork.org)
The history of ivory-topped piano keys and the invisible human suffering caused by our cultural commodities.
History, Culture, Consumerism, Ethics
6 points by Thevet 8 days ago | 0 comments
The Ethics of Spreading Life in the Cosmos (centauri-dreams.org)
We keep trying to extend our reach into the heavens, but the idea of panspermia is that the heavens are actually responsible for us. Which is to say, that at least the precursor materials that allow life to emerge came from elsewhere, and did not originate on Earth.
Space Exploration, Astrobiology, Ethics
42 points by JPLeRouzic 8 days ago | 116 comments
Elephants remember: companies using "block lists" to not rehire some employees (businessinsider.com)
Workers across industries report being unknowingly blacklisted by past employers, sometimes for years. Experts say block lists are legal but raise ethical concerns, as employees often have no way to appeal the decision. For companies, block lists help reduce risk of suboptimal rehires amid turnover in management ranks.
Employment, Labor Relations, Ethics, Business
7 points by supernova87a 10 days ago | 6 comments
"Am I the unethical one?" (2023) (dailynous.com)
“All I did was go to a website that is designed to facilitate cheating and set up a kind of camera to see who visited it.”
Ethics, Online Behavior, Privacy
8 points by Tomte 11 days ago | 1 comments
Your AI Lover Will Change You (newyorker.com)
Is it important that your lover be a biological human instead of an A.I. or a robot, or will even asking this question soon feel like an antiquated prejudice?
Artificial Intelligence, Relationships, Ethics, Technology
7 points by jbegley 11 days ago | 1 comments
Improved ways to operate a rude crawler (marginalia.nu)
Tech news is abuzz with rude AI crawlers that forge their user-agent and ignore robots.txt. In my opinion, if this is all the AI startups can muster, they’re losing their touch. wget can do this. You need to up your game, get that crawler really rolling coal. Flagrant disregard for externalities is an important signal to the investors that your AI startup is the one.
Artificial Intelligence, Web Scraping, Ethics, Startups
75 points by doruk101 11 days ago | 12 comments
Bryan Johnson, Who Wants to Live Forever, Sought Control with NDAs (nytimes.com)
That control is starting to fray as Mr. Johnson, a longevity guru known for performing experiments on his body, faces a backlash over the agreements.
Longevity, Science, Business, Ethics, Law
17 points by freddier 12 days ago | 9 comments
How 'animal methods bias' is affecting research careers (nature.com)
Some early-career researchers report feeling pressure to use animal models to meet journal and grant requirements, even in disciplines and projects that don’t require them.
Science, Research, Animal Welfare, Ethics, Academia
36 points by LinuxBender 12 days ago | 9 comments
Roy Lee Beat Amazon's Technical Interview with AI. He Got an Offer and Was Outed (gizmodo.com)
A Columbia University student is facing a disciplinary hearing at the college after he used an AI program to help him land internships at Amazon, Meta, and TikTok.
AI, Ethics, Education, Hiring Practices
6 points by mistersquid 12 days ago | 0 comments
Non-Consensual Consent: The Performance of Choice in a Coercive World (qualiaadvocate.substack.com)
Consider the following scenario: You're sitting in a job interview for a position you desperately need to pay rent. The interviewer asks, "Why are you passionate about working in insurance claims processing?" Despite feeling nothing resembling passion, you fabricate enthusiasm, carefully crafting a narrative about your deep interest in risk assessment and customer service.
Ethics, Social Commentary, Power Dynamics, Coercion
21 points by QualiaAdvocate 13 days ago | 7 comments
Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT's false claim that he murdered his kids (arstechnica.com)
A Norwegian man said he was horrified to discover that ChatGPT outputs had falsely accused him of murdering his own children.
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Privacy, Lawsuits, Ethics
44 points by pseudolus 13 days ago | 38 comments
AI hallucinations: ChatGPT created a fake child murderer (noyb.eu)
OpenAI’s highly popular chatbot, ChatGPT, regularly gives false information about people without offering any way to correct it.
Generative AI, Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Privacy
14 points by croes 14 days ago | 9 comments
People Are Using AI to Create Influencers with Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes (404media.co)
Instagram’s unwillingness to moderate AI-generated content finds a new low.
Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, Ethics, Disability
15 points by voxadam 14 days ago | 9 comments
Why the Law Against Business Bribes Is Good for Business (sloanreview.mit.edu)
In February, the Trump administration announced that it was suspending enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), pending a six-month review.
Business, Law, Corruption, Ethics
16 points by gnabgib 16 days ago | 13 comments
Ewan Morrison on Elon Musk, brain implants and the danger of tech bros (thetimes.com)
Elon Musk, Brain Implants, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Ethics
7 points by thinkingemote 18 days ago | 0 comments
AI Scientists Are Told to Remove 'Ideological Bias' from Powerful Models (wired.com)
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued new instructions to scientists that partner with the US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI) that eliminate mention of “AI safety,” “responsible AI,” and “AI fairness” in the skills it expects of members and introduces a request to prioritize “reducing ideological bias, to enable human flourishing and economic competitiveness.”
Artificial Intelligence, Bias, Ethics, Government Regulation, Science
31 points by BLKNSLVR 19 days ago | 15 comments
Ask HN: Is human technology advancing faster than human wisdom sustainable? (ycombinator.com)
I think it is easy to argue human technology has advanced far faster than human wisdom.
Technology, Society, Ethics, Artificial Intelligence
7 points by oatmeal1 20 days ago | 4 comments
It's not cheating if you write the video game solver yourself (robertheaton.com)
My wife and two little boys sometimes go on trips to see friends or family for whom my presence isn’t strictly required.
Video Games, Programming, Ethics, Relationships
21 points by ozanonay 20 days ago | 7 comments
Privacy Is Also Protecting the Data of Others (privacyguides.org)
In privacy, we talk a lot about how to protect our own data, but what about our responsibility to protect the data of others?
Privacy, Data Security, Ethics
9 points by jonaharagon 21 days ago | 0 comments
How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975) (cs.virginia.edu)
Sometimes we discover unpleasant truths. Whenever we do so, we are in difficulties: suppressing them is scientifically dishonest, so we must tell them, but telling them, however, will fire back on us.
Truth, Ethics, Science, Communication
76 points by pcfwik 22 days ago | 54 comments
AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities (lesswrong.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Risks, Ethics, Future
3 points by andrewla 22 days ago | 0 comments
Should Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment Be Retracted? (retractionwatch.com)
Philip G. Zimbardo passed away in October 2024 at age 91. He enjoyed an illustrious career at Stanford University, where he taught for 50 years. He accrued a long list of accolades, but his singular and enduring contribution to scholarship was the Stanford Prison Experiment, a simulation carried out in the university’s psychology department in August 1971. The research project became the best-known psychological analysis of institutionalization at the time.
Psychology, Research, Ethics, Stanford University, Social Science
7 points by leephillips 23 days ago | 0 comments
A Post Mortem on the Gino Case (theorgplumber.com)
On September 30th, 2023, the New Yorker published a long piece on “L’affaire Ariely/Gino”, and the role I played in it.
Ethics, Academic Research, Journalism
9 points by luu 25 days ago | 0 comments