The consultation format was widely criticized for its prioritization of business interests, its lack of attention to human rights and labour concerns related to AI, and its disregard for deliberative public dialogue: the short, 30-day time window and specialized knowledge required to meaningfully answer many of the survey questions posed barriers to public participation.
In response, over 150 individuals and organizations signed an open letter urging Solomon to extend the consultation timeline, reconstitute the AI task force into a more equitable structure, and re-write the survey to better represent the concerns of a broader range of stakeholders.
Goal to adopt LLMs and related tech seems driven almost solely by FOMO. Government, more than any other organization, should be applying healthy skepticism to claims of self-serving tech companies, most of whom have not even proven their tech’s worth, in the marketplace or anywhere else. Except maybe as a means of confounding the gullible and amusing the masses.
Every tool must prove it’s real worth helping people achieve a real and meaningful goal. Meanwhile, fanbois prove only that LLMs are good at cloning pre-existing products, at best remixing them, and introducing countless security vulnerabilities, all while losing any understanding of how any of it works, all in the interests of “moving faster”. But faster in which direction, nobody seems to know or care.