"Note: Due to safety concerns raised by the community, we have decided to shut down the Alpaca live demo. Thank you to everyone who provided valuable feedback."
So probably this was the usual type of people complaining about the usual type of thing.
This is from their blog, I doubt they intended for this to be ran for long.
Did they have safety guards on the demo? If so they couldn't have been great as it would have had to be made by them which I can't image they had a ton of resources for.
I know the self hosted LLaMa has 0 safeguards and the Alpaca LoRA also has 0 safeguards.
Side question, how is this a surprise to them? If this was due to safeguards, then pulling it now implies there's some new form of information. What new information could occur? That people were going to use it to generate a bunch of harmful contents? Seems obvious.. wonder what we're missing
(And not for nothing, but their reputation is already suffering badly)
Imagine you are hosting a demo for fun, and people do some nefarious (by your own estimation) things with it. So, rationally, you decide to not allow that sort of thing anymore.
You don't really owe people an explanation, it's a free country and all, but it's nice to avoid getting bombarded with questions. Now what do you write up? Spend hours writing an essay on the moral boundaries for LLMs? Maybe shove a note onto the internet and go back to all the copious spare time you have as grad student?
I don’t think they owe a moral stand to anyone.