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I will die on the hill that "SOME PIG" from Charlotte's Web was merely an existential determiner.

Instead of asking AI to write something substansive for you, ask it to critique your writing. Then use your own judgement as to which bits of advice to follow and which to ignore.

The LLM will always give you a full rewrite — don't use it. It always does too much, and persuading it to tone it down is a constant battle.


AI can't critique because it has no critical faculty. It can only offer critique-shaped language. That may be useful for some, though.

That’s not entirely true. High end models will point out things that are misrepresented or plain wrong, and this will often be accurate.

Potayto, potahto

It's childish of me I know, but if this actually goes through I will feel a twinge of delight at the refutation of all the HN commenters who have argued that such enforcement is unrealistic.

The EU AI Act already levies 7% global annual turnover penalties for prohibited AI practices.

Goes through != Enforced

> Let's start with crimes that actually cost lives.

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/20...

"According to the Identity Theft Resource Center’s 2023 Consumer Impact Report, 16% of identity theft victims are experiencing suicidal thoughts."


Then such businesses should not exist. What right do they have to gamble with the wealth of 150 million people unrelated to their enterprise?

This can't happen to government agencies? Well then let's not have governments either!

It's perfectly reasonable, and if something perfectly reasonable is "unrealistic", then the system is corrupt.

Bankrupting everyone who does business by making them repay 300% of earnings is unreasonable.

The liability shield is too strong though so I do agree it’s causing problems.


The socialized losses vastly exceed 300% of earnings - they're analogous to a company mishandling toxic waste and ruining everyone around them. The way they are running their business is catastrophically irresponsible, and if they can't afford the consequences, they shouldn't have gone into this business.

Fines exceeding 100% of lifetime compensation might actually do something. As it stands, clawbacks are ineffective — for example, Carrie Tolstedt of the Wells Fargo scandal wound up money ahead to the tune of tens of millions of dollars:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Tolstedt

> In response to the report, Wells Fargo retroactively fired Tolstedt for cause and revoked $47.3 million that they had previously paid her. This brought the total amount of money she had given up to $67 million, or about 54% of her $125 million pay package she initially received when she retired.


Fines on the scale that it might be reasonable to reserve escrow funds for are just "cost of doing business" fines.

Ohhh, has anybody used AI to generate delicious statistics about how many ads served by various ad networks will get you hacked / violate the ad networks own policies?

Fully agree. Humans are social animals who behave differently in different contexts, and the corporate context statistically ensures that the humans inside of it behave in all sorts of lamentable ways.


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