I think some of this is also incentives from the customer side. Some number of customers want to be able to say things aren’t AI, without actually caring about the ground truth. Eg if you pay copywriters by volume, they have a strong incentive to use AI. And, if you don’t start checking until it’s ubiquitous, you risk losing your whole labor force once you do start checking, and the lower quality services are often cheaper, to boot.
Nobody actually says ‘I want to pay a third party to lie to my customers about my labor practices’; the CEO is just disincentivized from looking at the options on the market closely enough to tell the difference, and orders that the company go with the cheaper option.
I agree that helping to serve customer needs to outsource accountability/blame is one reason. I find it more understandable/almost morally gray when it comes to hiring corporate copywriters, and more unambiguously evil when it comes to, say, financial fraud deepfakes or polygraphs in criminal justice. Alas
I think some of this is also incentives from the customer side. Some number of customers want to be able to say things aren’t AI, without actually caring about the ground truth. Eg if you pay copywriters by volume, they have a strong incentive to use AI. And, if you don’t start checking until it’s ubiquitous, you risk losing your whole labor force once you do start checking, and the lower quality services are often cheaper, to boot.
Nobody actually says ‘I want to pay a third party to lie to my customers about my labor practices’; the CEO is just disincentivized from looking at the options on the market closely enough to tell the difference, and orders that the company go with the cheaper option.
[from experience, not at any AI safety org]
I agree that helping to serve customer needs to outsource accountability/blame is one reason. I find it more understandable/almost morally gray when it comes to hiring corporate copywriters, and more unambiguously evil when it comes to, say, financial fraud deepfakes or polygraphs in criminal justice. Alas