[fullspectrumdev]

Personally I’ll take neither.

Alignment and such is a fucking scam.

[staunton]

Alignment just means that the software does what you want. Of course, any term can be appropriated and abused by whoever can gain from doing so. I still think it's important to have a concrete idea what one means when one uses words. For example, you wouldn't say that "medicine is a fucking scam" to mean that the healthcare industry is broken.

[qualifiedai]

No, alignment should be done. Also, both base and aligned models should be released publicly.

[mensetmanusman]

Choice of data to use is alignment. If you train it on the internet, your LLM will spew SSO garbage, so we align it to be more useful.