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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  719 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I feel like we need to talk about AI language models

Sure. Model T introduced in 1908; seat belts mandatory for all passenger vehicles 1968.

Social innovations will always kill off the bold and the slow. In general, those innovations that are judged to be a net negative are legislated against faster (lawn darts, MDMA, vaping) than those of mixed use (gasoline, VoIP).

I think if you said "hey I have invented gasoline" in the social media environment of 2022 it would be a controlled substance within a week. But I see that as a legislation problem, not an innovation problem... and our legislation around the internet has been stupidly piecemeal for a stupidly long time.