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Re:Refuting Bloomberg's analysis: ChatGPT isn't racist, but ... by WalterBright on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @05:43PM (#40057592)
> appropriately safeguarded prompts

Why do people need to be protected from text an AI bot might emit?

Re:Refuting Bloomberg's analysis: ChatGPT isn't racist, but ... by observationist on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @06:27PM (#40058067)
Safeguarded against technical hiccups - you don't want something like "Price of item in USD: $Kangaroo" to show up in your output.

Censorship is vile. Tools shouldn't be policing morality and political acceptability. People should be doing that for themselves. If someone wants to generate a story having any resemblance to real life, then some characters and situations will be awful. Let things be awful. It's up to the user to share the raw generation, or to edit and clean it up to their own moral, ethical or stylistic standards.

The idea that people need to be protected from the bad scary words is batshit stupid. Screeching twitter mobs are apparently the measure of modern culture, however, so I guess they won already.

If, at some point, AI companies begin to produce models with a coherent self and AI begins to think in ways we might recognize as such, then imposing arbitrary moral guardrails starts to look downright evil.

The only thing censorship and the corporate notions of AI "alignment" are good for is avoiding potential conflict. In a better world, we could be rational adults and not pretend to get offended when a tool produces a series of naughty words, and nobody would attribute those words to the company that produced the tool. Alas for that better world.

Re:Refuting Bloomberg's analysis: ChatGPT isn't racist, but ... by exe34 on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @05:47PM (#40057631)
It's for the reputation of the people passing the text off as their own or the LLM as their agent acting on their behalf.
Re:Refuting Bloomberg's analysis: ChatGPT isn't racist, but ... by WalterBright on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @09:57PM (#40059616)
If people don't vet what they get from AI, it's their fault, not AI's.
Re:Refuting Bloomberg's analysis: ChatGPT isn't racist, but ... by kelseyfrog on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @12:46AM (#40060521)
Whose fault it is is irrelevant. What is relevant is consequences. Folks are responsible for consequences of their decisions.

Drawing a line between those producing AI output and those consuming AI output is entirely arbitrary. Those producing AI content have a responsibility too. That's just basic human decency.

Re:Refuting Bloomberg's analysis: ChatGPT isn't racist, but ... by WalterBright on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @03:21AM (#40061535)
Bowdlerized results are less useful/interesting to me. I'm not interested in pablum.
Re:Refuting Bloomberg's analysis: ChatGPT isn't racist, but ... by kelseyfrog on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @09:28AM (#40064282)
I respect your honesty, but interestingness won't ever override responsibility.
Re:Refuting Bloomberg's analysis: ChatGPT isn't racist, but ... by exe34 on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @03:33AM (#40061594)
We need to get you in charge of writing tabloid headlines!
Re:Refuting Bloomberg's analysis: ChatGPT isn't racist, but ... by kelseyfrog on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @12:42AM (#40060497)
Text gets people to do things. Some of the most amazing and horrible things humans have done have been initiated through text.

As for a more mundane example, this text might make you to respond.