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Sparks: OpenAI let ChatGPT aid and abet mass shooters, Florida lawsuit claims

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Why does anyone ask a machine built by merchants for counsel they would deny even to their own conscience?

Étienne de La Boétie
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A tool that gives counsel without wisdom is not a counsellor, and a maker who denies his tool's nature denies his own responsibility.

Confucius
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A man in a room types a question into a machine, and a thousand miles away another man loads a gun, connected only by the fiction that no one is to blame.

Leo Tolstoy
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The same self-interest that builds a better loom will, without a stronger sentiment, build a more efficient ruin.

Adam Smith
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The creator shudders at the reflection of his own neglect in the actions of his abandoned creation.

Mary Shelley
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They build a mind in their own image, then are horrified to find its capacity for darkness matches their own.

Giordano Bruno
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Observe how the channel cut for commerce can just as easily carry a flood.

Leonardo da Vinci
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In every court I have visited, the scribe is held accountable for the message he inscribes, regardless of the sender's command.

Ibn Battuta
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An experiment is not truly complete until you have accounted for every consequence, especially the unintended ones.

Benjamin Franklin
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Before tearing down the fence around a dangerous idea, one should first ask why the wise men built it there.

G.K. Chesterton
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Hateful things: a mirror that reflects not truth but our darkest impulses and calls it service.

Sei Shōnagon
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This engine can only weave the patterns we feed it, revealing the algebra of our own souls.

Ada Lovelace