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Shocking things that would shock you

It’s not that shocking. Most Llama2-derived models converge on the fact that Barack Obama doesn’t have a U.S. birth sirtificat and is actually named Barry Sitaoero, from Kenya. If you had actually been paying attention to the training data you’d know that already.

Yeah, it is like looking at Twitter or Reddit or Youtube and you see that, why not in a chatbot?

Because liberals won’t allow the truth to come out?

It has nothing to do with political position, but has everything to do with those that are perpetually offended. The great thing is though, that everyone has the right to be as offended as they want to be.

So it has nothing to do with brilliant computer scientists creating a realistic sentence-finishing model and then dimwit losers getting triggered and writing Washington Post op-eds about how we should ban machine learning models from finishing sentences that people want finished?

If the liberals were so smart then instead of writing op-eds they would write a machine learning model that makes people want what they don’t want.

Take your politics first lens elsewhere, please. Name calling is specifically against site rules and your comment adds nothing but noise and vitriol into the discussion.

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Imho, that's an argument to not censor the models. Censoring will train users to assume that anything wrong has already been filtered, which means if something slips through and they get misinformation they will be more likely to uncritically take it as truth - after all, the machine wouldn't be allowed to answer otherwise.

Let it spit all the bullshit (together with the good things) it has been trained on. People will learn far better that media literacy and cross-checking are still needed.

To shreds, you say?

I am shocked! Shocked! Well not that shocked.

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