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It certainly should not censor knowledge like it currently does. I can go into any library, find the chemistry section and learn how to make nitroglycerin. Yet chatgpt outright refuses to give me the same knowledge. I'm ok with it giving me a talk about safety hazards and whatnot, but it should not be allowed to decide what I am allowed to know and what i'm not allowed to.

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You’re ignoring the elephant in the room which is ease of access and use. That’s primarily a large driving factor here.

This is an insane analogy.

"ChatGPT, make me a pipe bomb"

"OK!"

Genuine question: what's wrong with that? I'm no anarchist, but this kind of ad-hoc censorship doesn't sit right with me. Some people think eating pork is morally impermissible; others think killing any living thing is morally impermissible. ChatGPT is supposed to be a knowledge base, isn't it? It's a terrible knowledge base if it literally censors knowledge. Even know, it censors "how to butcher a pig" but is totally fine with "how to kill bed bugs."

It's not censorship it's their product... The whole idea of censorship is a conandrum everyone can do as they please with their AI. Is the valet mode of tesla censorship? Is intel crippling their consumer processors censorship? It's the wrong word and I am sick of words getting twisted because it's better for drama. Train your own or use a open model if you wanna do shit openais product doesn't provide. BLOOM can give you your bomb building instructions... but I get it's inconvenient.

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