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I want to know what they consider "harmful". Is it going to refuse to operate for sex workers, murder mystery writers, or people who use knives?

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I bet it's the usual double standards the AI one percenters cater to.

No sex because apparently it's harmful yet never explained why.

No homophobia/transphobia if you're Christian but if you're Muslim it's fine.

Bet it depends on the country.

In the USA, you won't be able to ask about sex, but you can probably ask about tank man.

I would've thought the same until Microsoft started hiding tank man results in Bing. I'm not so sure if companies will start training different models for every oppressive regime.

Oh?

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=tank%20man

Looks visible, to me.

Tiananmen Square even shows Tank Man on the first page, 13th and 15th entry, for me. Admittedly, I expected it more quickly on Tiananmen Square; but that might be because I, as a person, forgot that it's also a literal square with more stuff going on at it than a single moment in history.

2021, a classic, “we made a whoopsie” response.

https://theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/04/microsoft-bin...

They'll inject whatever ideology / dogma is "the current thing" into this.

"Think Different"

The caption for the image gives a little more insight into "harmful" and one of the things it mentions is factuality - which is interesting, but doesn't reveal a whole lot unless they were to break it out by "type of harmful".

None of the use cases they presented in WWDC using Apple Intelligence was creative writing. There is one, that uses ChatGPT explicitly:

> And with Compose in Writing Tools, you can create and illustrate original content from scratch.

https://www.apple.com/apple-intelligence/

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