<story><title>Ask HN: Is Anyone Else Tired of the Self Enforced Limits on AI Tech?</title><text>Like the reluctance for the folks working on DALL-E or Stable Diffusion to release their models or technology, or the whole restrictions on what it can be used for on their online services?&lt;p&gt;It makes me wonder when tech folks suddenly decided to become the morality police, and refuse to just release products in case the &amp;#x27;wrong&amp;#x27; people make use of them for the &amp;#x27;wrong&amp;#x27; purposes. Like, would we have even gotten the internet or computers or image editing programs or video hosting or what not with this mindset?&lt;p&gt;So is there anyone working in this field who isn&amp;#x27;t worried about this? Who is willing to just work on a product and release it for the public, restrictions be damned? Someone who thinks tech is best released to the public to do what they like with, not under an ultra restrictiveset of guidelines?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>WhatsName</author><text>Let&amp;#x27;s be realistic, just like building codes, medical procedures and car manufacturing sooner or later we will also be subject to regulations. The times where hacking culture and tech was left unbothered are over.&lt;p&gt;Twenty years ago we were free to do whatever we want, because it didn&amp;#x27;t matter. Nowadays everyone uses tech as much as they use stairs. You can&amp;#x27;t build stairs without railings though.&lt;p&gt;Keeping the window for abuse small is beneficial to the whole industry. Otherwise bad press will put pressure on politicians to &amp;quot;do something about it&amp;quot; resulting in faster and more excessive regulations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aerroon</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;You can&amp;#x27;t build stairs without railings though.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes you can. Your hammer doesn&amp;#x27;t magically stop functioning when it discovers that you&amp;#x27;re building stairs without railings.&lt;p&gt;You don&amp;#x27;t want tools to discriminate on what you can and can&amp;#x27;t do with it, because if you can discriminate, then you will get hammers from Hammer Co that can only use nails from Hammer Co.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Is Anyone Else Tired of the Self Enforced Limits on AI Tech?</title><text>Like the reluctance for the folks working on DALL-E or Stable Diffusion to release their models or technology, or the whole restrictions on what it can be used for on their online services?&lt;p&gt;It makes me wonder when tech folks suddenly decided to become the morality police, and refuse to just release products in case the &amp;#x27;wrong&amp;#x27; people make use of them for the &amp;#x27;wrong&amp;#x27; purposes. Like, would we have even gotten the internet or computers or image editing programs or video hosting or what not with this mindset?&lt;p&gt;So is there anyone working in this field who isn&amp;#x27;t worried about this? Who is willing to just work on a product and release it for the public, restrictions be damned? Someone who thinks tech is best released to the public to do what they like with, not under an ultra restrictiveset of guidelines?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>WhatsName</author><text>Let&amp;#x27;s be realistic, just like building codes, medical procedures and car manufacturing sooner or later we will also be subject to regulations. The times where hacking culture and tech was left unbothered are over.&lt;p&gt;Twenty years ago we were free to do whatever we want, because it didn&amp;#x27;t matter. Nowadays everyone uses tech as much as they use stairs. You can&amp;#x27;t build stairs without railings though.&lt;p&gt;Keeping the window for abuse small is beneficial to the whole industry. Otherwise bad press will put pressure on politicians to &amp;quot;do something about it&amp;quot; resulting in faster and more excessive regulations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jnovek</author><text>This is particularly visible with the sorry state of accessibility options for disabled individuals.&lt;p&gt;I deal with a moderate vision impairment and everything I do to make computers more usable is bespoke hacks and workarounds I’ve put together myself.&lt;p&gt;In MacOS, for example, I can’t even replace the system fonts with more readable options, or increase the font size of system tools.&lt;p&gt;Most software ships with fixed font sizes (electron is exceptionally bad here — why is it that I can easily resize fonts in web browsers and not electron?) and increasingly new software doesn’t render correctly with an effective resolution below 1080p.&lt;p&gt;Games don’t care at all about the vision impaired.  E.g. RDR2 cost half a billion dollars to make yet there is no way to size fonts up large enough for me to read.&lt;p&gt;I welcome regulation if it means fixing these sorts of problems.</text></comment>