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So the issue here is that anybody can contribute without oversight. Sounds a lot like the issue with that Tay bot, whose contributions led to it being anti-Semitic and all that. I'd argue that its lack of oversight to prevent that sort of abuse is a fundamental problem with the system and not a partial point of fault.



This wasn't a case of "anybody contributing", they literally bought off a Meta employee to do this. Well, I guess anybody can commit a crime, but that's not a fundamental weakness of the law.


Good point, but I think my overall point stands, since the "system" is still inclusive of the processes on top of the submission or in this case, the lack of process. Lots of red flags going on here when thousands of people can be added without notification within gov and really speaks to the capabilities of a company's "extra judicial" tooling.




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