>Prefering to nuke a city than let a black man hear a slur, refusing to help you make a tuna sandwich etc. They were hyper-woke
On its own, all this tells me is that the non-human, non-conscious tool was programmed specifically to not say a slur. To me that seems like something any reasonable company trying to create a tool to be used by business and the general population might incorporate while it is still learning to otherwise refine that tool.
And I took the Pew survey mentioned above and it didn’t ask me if I would say a racial slur.
Finally, if anyone, from any point on the political spectrum, thinks that a tool being limited to not respond with racist terms, is a reflection of its overall political leaning, I suggestion you look inward.
Anyway it's trivially true. I think most of us remember the absurdities the first generation LLMs came out with. Prefering to nuke a city than let a black man hear a slur, refusing to help you make a tuna sandwich etc. They were hyper-woke to a level way beyond what would be considered acceptable even in places like US universities, and it's great to see Facebook openly admit this and set fixing it as a goal. It makes the Llama team look very good. I'm not sure I'd trust Gemini with anything more critical than closely supervised coding, but Llama is definitely heading in the right direction.