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by phildenhoff 906 days ago
It’s very fast at telling me it can’t tell me things!

I asked about creating illicit substances — an obvious (and reasonable) target for censorship. And, admirably, it suggested getting help instead. That’s fine.

But I asked for a poem about pumping gas in the style of Charles Bukowski, and it moaned that I shouldn’t ask for such mean-spirited, rude things. It wouldn’t dare create such a travesty.

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It seems like it must be using Llama-2-chat, which has had 'safety' training.

To test which underlying model I asked it what a good sexy message for my girlfriend for Valentine's Day would be, and it lectured me about objectification.

It makes sense the chat interface is using the chat model, I just wish that people were more consistent about labeling the use of Llama-2-chat vs Llama-2 as the fine tuning really does lead to significant underlying differences.

It told me "Yeehaw Ridem Cowboy" was potentially problematic, which is news to me living out west.
It seems to reject all lyrics requests as well (In my experience, LLMs are good at the first one or two lines, and then just make it up as they go along, with sometimes hilarious results).