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by sterlind 986 days ago
> I hope open source AI can have greater success, but the users are motivated by convenience and not freedom or privacy.

Agreed, but that's actually helped open-source AI too! Stable Diffusion beat DALL-E 2 because you could actually run it, you didn't have to be a vetted influencer or whatever OpenAI required at the time. And it's hung on because you can fine-tune it to make porn, or celebrities, or even just anime. The least convenient model is the one you don't have access to (or that can't/won't do what you're asking of it.)

That's a great quote on alignment.