Uh huh, you got me on a technicality. Let me clarify that I see the social problems associated with social media, including the ML-based recommender systems they use, as far more consequential than the social problems associated with LLM-based chatbots.
The recommender systems are one part of why social media is problematic, but not nearly the whole story.
I think looking at the problems of social media through the lens of “AI safety” would be too limiting and not helpful.
Social media recommendation algorithms are typically based on machine learning and generally fall under the purview of near-term AI ethics.
Uh huh, you got me on a technicality. Let me clarify that I see the social problems associated with social media, including the ML-based recommender systems they use, as far more consequential than the social problems associated with LLM-based chatbots.
The recommender systems are one part of why social media is problematic, but not nearly the whole story.
I think looking at the problems of social media through the lens of “AI safety” would be too limiting and not helpful.