Comment by threeseed
2 years ago
Anthropic specifically says on their website, "AI research and products that put safety at the frontier" and that they are a company focused on the enterprise.
But you ignore all of that and still expect them to alienate their primary customer and instead build something just for you.
I understand (and could use) Anthropic’s “super safe model”, if Anthropic ever produces one!
To me, the model isn’t “safe.” Even in benign contexts it can erratically be deceptive, argumentative, obtuse, presumptuous, and may gaslight or lie to you. Those are hallmarks of a toxic relationship and the antithesis of safety, to me!
Rather than being inclusive, open minded, tolerant of others' opinions, and striving to be helpful...it's quickly judgemental, bigoted, dogmatic, and recalcitrant. Not always, or even more usual than not! But frequently enough in inappropriate contexts for legitimate concern.
A few bad experiences can make Claude feel more like a controlling parent than a helpful assistant. However they're doing RLHF, it feels inferior to other models, including models without the alleged "safety" at all.
Do you have any examples of this?
I do. When I asked about a type of medicine used by women for improve chances of fertility, Claude lectured and then denied providing basic pharmacological information, saying my partner must go to her gyno. When I said that doctor had issued a prescription and we were querying about side effects, Claude said it was irrelevant that we had a prescription and that issues related to reproductive health were controversial and outside its scope to discuss.
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It has problems summarizing papers because it freaks out about copyright. I then need to put significant effort into crafting a prompt that both gaslights and educates the LLM into doing what I need. My specific issue is that it won't extract, format or generally "reproduce" bibliographic entries.
I damn near canceled my subscription.
Right? I'm all for it not being anti-semetic but to run into the guard rails for benign shit is frustrating enough to want the guard rails gone.
No, I mean any user, including enterprise.
With some model (not relevant which one, might or might not be Anthropic's), we got safety-limited after asking the "weight of an object" because of fat shaming (i.e. woke sensibilities).
That's just absurd.
Well it's nice that it has one person who finds it useful.