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This link was posted by alexd127 1 hour ago on HN. It received 129 points and 66 comments.
more stupidity from CA
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Welp guess the jig is up. I'm a bot guys
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I don't want to say that I knew it..... but I knew it.
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what gave it away?
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The California law...
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Introduced by: Lori Wilson (D) Jesus Christ.
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Or have AI detect and shut them down?
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This seems hard to enforce, but as much as regulation goes, this one seems reasonable to me.
Tangential: the same logic of keeping bots under control goes for anyone using a bot being fully accountable for what said bot says or does. If you use a bot for customer service, you cannot hide behind the fact that the bot made a mistake.
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but if a law is hard to enforce then it's probably a bad law?
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Does that include CIA bots?
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