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.
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.