today i find msft has backend office admin policies that allow you to rate on a scale of 1 to 7 (sure???) how much "hate content", "self harm content", and "sexual content" to allow in AI prompting environments, major content warning on the definitions at the link learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...
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![Joseph Weizenbaum in Computer Power and Human Reason:
The computer has thus begun to be an instrument for the destruction of history. For when society legitimates only those "data" that are "in one standard format" and that "can easily be told to the machine," then history, memory itself, is annihilated. The New York Times has already begun to build a "data bank" of current events. Of course, only those data that are easily derivable as by-products of typesetting machines are admissable to the system. As the number of subscribers to this system grows, and as they learn more and more to rely on "all the news that [was once] fit to print," as the Times proudly identifies its editorial policy, how long will it be before what counts as fact is determined by the system, before all other knowledge, all memory, is simply declared illegitimate? Soon a supersystem will be built, based on the New York Times data bank (or one very like it), from which "historians" will make inferences about what "really" happened, about who is connected to whom, and about the "real" logic of events. There are many people now who see nothing wrong in this.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2si3soj5w3vadgb4w7giu4oi/bafkreiegxvsjk6pc7fvtdkunifs4vcgoyatin347c2fyz6jqwtvhso56hi)
