Comment by scarmig
2 years ago
> I hear a lot of complaints about refusals but rarely any examples of said refusals, likely because they are embarrassing.
At least circa 8 months ago on ChatGPT (an aeon ago, I recognize), I could readily get it to make gendered jokes about men but would get a refusal when asking for gendered jokes about women. I think things have "improved" in that time, meaning a more equal distribution of verboten topics, but my preference would be a tool that does what I want it to, not one that tries to protect me from myself for society's or my own good. (There's a related problem in the biases introduced by the training process.)
> Is it fair to assume that I won't get refusals for code generation and RAG on documentation?
Give it a couple years. "Can you write me a Java function that, given an array length, a start of a range, and the end of a range, returns whether the range is valid or not?" "I'm sorry, but this code is inappropriate to share. Shall I purchase a license from Oracle for access to it for you?"
Oh for sure. We're in the golden age of LLMs before the enshittification commences and we don't appreciate that enough
And, of course, we'll have ads incorporated (some subtle, some not) into every response. Native advertising!