Comment by lwansbrough
1 year ago
Issue appears to be that the uncensored model too closely reflects reality with all its troubling details such as history.
1 year ago
Issue appears to be that the uncensored model too closely reflects reality with all its troubling details such as history.
History? George Washington was always Black, Genghis Khan was always white, and Julius Caesar was always an albino Japanese woman. Also, Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia, war is peace and freedom is slavery.
From my more substantive comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39471003:
> The Ministry of Truth in Orwell’s 1984 would have loved this sort of thing. Why go to the work of manually rewriting history when you can just generate a new one on demand? … Generative AI should strive to be actually unbiased. That means it should not skew numbers in either direction, for anyone.
FWIW the government in 1984 actually had automated content generation, since thats how they produced pornography for the proles.
Black vikings do not model reality. Asking for 'an Irish person' produces a Leprechaun. Defending racism when it concerns racism against white people is just as bad as defending it when it concerns any other group.
Quite a hefty percentage of the people responsible for the current day's obsession with identity issues openly state racism against white people is impossible. This has been part of their belief system for decades, probably heard on a widescale for the first time during an episode of season one of 'The Real World' in 1992 but favored in academia for much longer than that.
It's because they have a very different definition of racism. Basically, according to this belief, if you are seen as part of the ethnic group in power, you will not be able to experience noteworthy levels of discrimination because of your genetic makeup.
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I think you two are agreeing.
They indeed are, just in a very polemic way. What a funny time we live in.
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Surely it's more likely that Google is just appending random keywords to incoming prompts, the same way DALLE used to do (or still does)?
It wouldn’t shock me either way, Google loves to both neuter products into uselessness and fuck with user inputs to skew results for what they deem is best for them.
The troubling details are probably the racist things found on all the forums. Do you want your LLM to reflect that? I suspect Google overcompensated.
Source?