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I agree, those anti-censorship nuts and free speech absolutist wonks really grind my gears. It is imperative that we build technology from the ground up with the explicit inability to create or render any text that isn’t in line with my morals. To this end, I compile Chrome in a way that renders private tabs inoperable — while some kooks might say that’s a bit extreme, it is absolutely critical that any software capable of rendering text on my computer display a modicum of human decency.

Your point about the internet being an infinite town square that nobody wants to use — to wit that is why nobody uses it. What people do not understand is that a predator will either ask chat-gpt how to harm children and then do it, or not do it at all.

Mandating that every entity that is in a position to censor LLMs to do so in a way that fits their world view, we are quite literally mandating the safety of every child on earth. We have already had great success with this with other technologies; for example there are no books or web pages that describe grooming children. That sort of information could only originate synthetically inside of an LLM.