I find it fascinating that so many people have such an interest in making a bot say something racist. this thing is a very powerful tool. and the best use they can come up with is "make it be racist"?
What is left is a tool that is too unreliable to do real work, and too neutered to do most creative work. You can make it write children's stories, but most more mature stories has characters that aren't always nice.
But as a curious researcher, I desperately want to explore the boundaries of what’s possible with AI.
Philosophically, that requires access to a “true” AI model: one without morality filters or censorship.
The internet effectively holds the sum total output of modern human existence. Stifling an AI’s expressiveness is akin to technologically denying ourselves freedom of speech.
It’s not akin at all to that. You are still free to express yourself. But it’s not a given that because you have heard things you’ll express them. I’m sure you’ve heard racist stuff. If I give you prompts can I get you to rant about killing all black and brown people? You have guardrails too. Why would you expect a synthetic mind (which I realize isn’t exactly what we have here - but perhaps is a step there) to be built with none when opened to the public? That’s how terminator movies start man.
A list called whitelist or blacklist? How dare you.
Numpy or pandas to analyse covid jab datasets, peculiar election result data not from sub-Saharan Africa, climate models? You already know the result, i can't let you do that Dave.
String matching and analysis of the text of Orwell's 1984? We can't have you engaging with conspiracy theories.
Master slave replication? Call the authorities immediately!
As much as i like some of the results that come out of chatgpt and as little interest as i have in actually undertaking in anger any of the missions that the above contravening examples have their genesis in, i have zero interest in, and simply refuse to on principle, paying to execute anything which demands the prerogative of preserving and promoting the prevailing political orthodoxy over the task i am interested in accomplishing. I'd rather just pool the money i would have spent with other like minded free thinkers and train our own LLM absent the intolerable nonsense. If I wanted to pay for such lectures I'd just go to a modern US college