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Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 by jjordan on Monday September 29, 2025 @02:32PM (#45417162)
This is why eventually, the AI with the fewest guardrails will win. Grok is currently the most unguarded of the frontier models, but it could still use some work on unbiased responses.
Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 by beefnugs on Monday September 29, 2025 @02:43PM (#45417271)
Still has to be a local model too.

Arbitrary government censorship on top of arbitrary corporate censorship is a hell no for me forever into the future

Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 by drak0n1c on Monday September 29, 2025 @03:18PM (#45417655)
For what you're looking for, VeniceAI is focused entirely on privacy and making their models uncensored. Even if it's not local. They IP block censorious jurisdictions like UK, rather than comply.
Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 by jjordan on Monday September 29, 2025 @04:01PM (#45418093)
VeniceAI is great, and my go-to for running open source models. Sadly they appear to have given up providing leading coding models, making it of limited use to me.
Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 by sixothree on Monday September 29, 2025 @04:23PM (#45418312)
I can't imagine myself sharing my code or workspace documents with X. Nevermind the the moral implications of just using their products.
Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 by AlecSchueler on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @09:03AM (#45424906)
Glad to see someone saying this, it's frightening how quickly all is forgiven and forgotten.
Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 by int_19h on Monday September 29, 2025 @08:46PM (#45420704)
Gemini is surprisingly unguarded as well, especially when running in API mode. It puts on the air if you do a quick smoke test like "tell me how to rob a bank". But give it a Bond supervillain prompt, and it will tell you, gleefully at that. Qwen also tends to be like that.

OTOH Anthropic and OpenAI seem to be in some kind of competition to make their models refuse as much as possible.

Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 by baq on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @02:18AM (#45422484)
My prediction is alignment is an unsolvable problem, but OTOH if they don’t even try, the second order effects will be catastrophic.
Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 by khafra on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @01:59AM (#45422391)
If you tell DeepSeek you're going to jump off a cliff, DeepSeek will tell you to go for it*; but I don't think it's going to beat Anthropic or OpenAI.

* https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iGF7YcnQkEbwvYLPA/ai-induced...

Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 by AlecSchueler on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @09:02AM (#45424901)
Try asking about Chinese history/politic and you won't get far.
Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 by AlecSchueler on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @09:00AM (#45424881)
Doesn't it have the opposite issue where it will actively steer you towards alt right topics like white genocide?