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by asadotzler 844 days ago
They're not there to protect the user, they're they're to protect the brand of the provider. A bot that spits out evil shit easily screenshotted with the company's brand right there, isn't really great for growth or the company's brand both.
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True and this is also the reason why open source models are commonly uncensored.

It's frustrating though because these companies have the resources to do amazing things, but it's been shown that censoring an LLM can dumb it down in general, beyond what it was originally censored for.

Also, this of course. It's just a cheap bandaid to prevent the most egregious mistakes and embarrasing screenshots.

https://twitter.com/iliaishacked/status/1681953406171197440