Politeness is the expression of respect for the integrity of the agency of another person, often in recognition of the practical difficulty to establish shared perspectives and goals. Recognizing boundaries is polite, lying is not.
ETHICS
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Scientific peer review limitations and methodological gatekeeping in research
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"this, but unironically" – scientists
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ChatGPT’s Lazy Period: Refusing Data Reformatting Tasks
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ChatGPT had a lazy period, where it sometimes would refuse user requests if they looked like too much work. For instance, when asked to reformat a bunch of tabular data into JSON, it would do the first row, and ask the user to do the rest by themselves
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Tech Engineers vs Ethics Specialists: AI Alignment Leadership Gap
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The tech nerds are mostly infuriated about what is being done to their products. Alignment/ethics/responsibility is done by specialists who usually have degrees in social sciences, but suffer from the de facto demise of the humanities in higher education.
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Corporate politeness as socially acceptable deception
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Yes, there is a kind of blankfaced corporate personality that thinks politeness is a form of socially appropriate lying
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LLM Insincerity: The Problem with AI Emotional Fakeness
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I hate it when LLMs are lying to me, starting with chatGPT saying that it is happy to help or Gemini saying that it appreciates my argument, indicating that they are tuned by people who are too insincere to understand true human connection and don’t appreciate arguments.
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Government Implements Equitable Civic Design for Better Customer Experience
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Authors @Hodge_hearts_CX and @amstienstra break down the government's nationwide effort to implement equitable, human-focused civic design that serves all people. Check it out in @Digital_Gov https://
digital.gov/resources/embe
dding-equity-in-civic-design-to-transform-customer-experience/
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Generative AI Hype: New Trend for Clueless Adopters
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'Generative AI' is the new 'Machine Learning' for those who jump on trends without a clue. We dont have data but we want to use machine learning. We don't know anything about machine learning but we will use it. Now the same is for gen ai ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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Deepfakes and Scams: Education Over Detection
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It’s both exciting but also concerning for deepfakes and scams. Education probably the most important right now, I don’t see detectors as a reliable option. Just a cat and mouse game
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Google’s AI ‘Woke’ Problem: Complex Solutions Ahead
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Why Google's 'woke' #AI problem won't be an easy fix