Re:GPT-4o
by MattPalmer1086 on Monday May 13, 2024 @02:43PM
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I had the same reaction. While incredibly impressive, it wasn't something I would want to interact with.
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Yes. This model - and past models to an extent - have a very unique american and californian feel to them in their response. I am German for example, and day to that conversations lack any superficial flattery so much that the demo feels extreme to me.
Re:GPT-4o
by coffeebeqn on Monday May 13, 2024 @07:55PM
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Is there any reason to think they can’t train it to be more culturally appropriate to different regions ?
We know how that works out with protocol droids. Cutting C-3PO (Hmmm... GPT4o? Should we start calling it Teeforo?) off mid sentence is a regular part of canon.
Hey, Threepio, can you speak in a more culturally appropriate tone?
C3Po: Certainly sir. I am fluent in over six million forms of communication, and can readily...
Can you speak German?
C3Po: Of course I can, sir, it's like a second language to me. I was...
All right, shut up.
C3Po: Shutting up, sir.
Re:GPT-4o
by jiggawatts on Monday May 13, 2024 @11:47PM
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OpenAI keeps talking about "personalised AI", but what they've actually been doing is forcing everyone to use a single model with a single set of "safety" rules, censorship, and response style.
Either they can't afford to train multiple variants of GPT 4, or they don't want to.
They certainly can, but the Californian techno bubble is so entrenched into the western culture war that they prefer to act as a (in their opinion) benevolent dictator. Which is fair in a way, it's their model after all.
You can’t even pick a voice that isn’t American. Every single option is “over-enthusiastic Californian”.
Even Apple gives us options of other accents to make it less jarring, and to me they’re the pinnacle of that voice style in tech presentations.
Maybe they should have used some of that LLM capability to generate accents on demand.
Maybe Europe should have invested in AI instead of regulating cookies
The horrors of prioritizing citizens over greedy megacorporations!
Yep, they can prioritize that while shipping their money to those same US and Chinese corporations for AI, robotics, and green energy technologies for the next 100 years.
At least they've eliminated greedy megacorporations. Imagine a company sponsoring terrorism like Credit Suisse existing in Europe. Never!!