AI circle anecdote: safetyists pleading lab researchers to quit 'to save their souls'
gandamu_ml · x · 2026-09-16
@tszzl joked that talking to a "Real Safetyist" makes him feel loved — they beseech him to quit the lab as though trying to save his immortal soul.
gandamuml replied that he had similar experiences in SF before the Stable Diffusion release: people showed horror and pleading upon learning their assumed steps (and inserted biases touted as the opposite) weren't going to happen at all — and he liked it. A slice of AI-circle culture capturing the tension between the safety community and lab researchers.
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