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Re:Uncensor Any LLM with Abliteration by N0b8ez on Saturday June 15, 2024 @01:33AM (#40687726)
It seems to cut both ways. If words are powerful, restricting words is also powerful. It's not clear why this leads to a pro-censorship stance, any more than to an anti-censorship one.
Re:Uncensor Any LLM with Abliteration by ben_w on Saturday June 15, 2024 @06:22AM (#40688780)
Oh indeed. That's why dictators both censor and propagandise.

It's a narrow path, absolutely a challenge to walk without slipping, and not one I feel confident of humanity rising to even as a team effort.

Just like the difference between liberty and authoritarianism in general: much as I'd like to be an anarchist in theory, in practice that's just a way to let people with big sticks take over.