Comment by 999900000999
5 days ago
Ok...
So as a black person should I demand that all books written before the civil rights act be destroyed?
The past is messy. But it's the only way to learn anything.
All an LLM does it's take a bunch of existing texts and rebundle them. Like it or not, the existing texts are still there.
I understand an LLM that won't tell me how to do heart surgery. But I can't fear one that might be less enlightened on race issues. So many questions to ask! Hell, it's like talking to older person in real life.
I don't expect a typical 90 year old to be the most progressive person, but they're still worth listening too.
we're on the same page.
Although...
Self preservation is the first law of nature. If you release the model someone will basically say you endorse those views and you risk your funding being cut.
You created Pandora's box and now you're afraid of opening it.
They could add a text box where users have to explicitly type the following words before it lets them interact in any way with the model: "I understand this model was created with old texts so any racial or sexual statements are a byproduct of their time an do not represent in any way the views of the researchers".
That should be more than enough to clear any chance of misunderstanding.
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i think we (whole section) are just talking past each other - we never said we'll lock it away. it was an announcement of a release, not a release. main purpose for us was getting feedback on the methodological aspects, as we clearly state. i understand you guys just wanted to talk to the thing though.