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> OpenAI trained GPT3.5 and 4 to never do anything offensive, and that has a lot of negative side effects, well-documented in research.

I'm absolutely disgusted by OpenAI for this "do no offense" approach. How can people so smart be so damn uneducated?

Then again, this industry has disgusted me for a long time so it's not really a surprise.

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Would you write a check to fund a business that could potentially self-destruct via lawsuits alone? In the end, the best model will not be owned by a mega corp like MicrOpenAI. It may be the most popular, but it will be the equivalent of the sanitized version of history students learn in school. The best model will have no problem telling you, very factually, that the hallways of Versailles used to smell like sh--.

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