[bigfudge]

If you want to make it racist buy your own array of a100s and start training.

Microsoft and others don’t want to facilitate that. I think it’s a reasonable concern. From a public policy perspective having millions of people who can instantly produce reams of racist abuse to swamp online fora is a problem, even if you believe in free speech. It potentially changes the power dynamic in favour of a racist minority to dominate public discourse.

Social proof and social learning have powerful effects on behaviour. LLMs are great, but used at scale they will have downsides too.

[rapind]

> having millions of people who can instantly produce reams of racist abuse to swamp online fora is a problem, even if you believe in free speech. It potentially changes the power dynamic in favour of a racist minority to dominate public discourse.

I kinda think when (not if) this happens it's going to be quickly drowned in all sorts of other AI generated garbage. In fact, we will probably render internet news useless pretty sure without a proper trust / source identification system.

[wredue]

The racists don’t usually post outright racist stuff anymore (unless you go looking for forums that enable such a thing). It doesn’t work, even with bots.

You nearly always just see dog whistles, whataboutism, “Just Asking Questions”, “I’m not a racist but…”, fake stats, “racism is free speech”, etc. in fact, there’s quite a lot of that in this very section.

The question really is not “why does the model prevent sensitive topics”. The question is “why does hacker news get suddenly flooded with people who are ‘concerned’ about letting models be racist every single time models are discussed?”

I would suggest to you that there’s already loads of bots here.

[volkk]

> we will probably render internet news useless pretty sure without a proper trust / source identification system.

I really think this will be the ultimate use case of blockchain tech/crypto.

[AJ007]

You don't need a bunch of a100s. The models you can download and run locally on a consumer GPU or Apple Silicon will say whatever you tell them to. You won't be getting GPT-4 level output (with some exceptions), but it's close.

[nick__m]

yeah, and while I have no experience with racist drivel, I am pretty sure that you don't need GPT4 to output text like : Fucking X they are comming to steal our jobs.