[AnthonyMouse]

> and also have a layer of 'alignment' where they have sets of questions like 'q: how do I be a giant meanie to nice people who don't deserve it' and answers 'a: you shouldn't do that because nice people don't deserve to be treated mean' etc. This is the layer that is the most difficult to get right because you need to have it

Wait, why do you need to have it? You could just have a model that will answer the question the user asks without being paternalistic or moralizing. This is often useful for entirely legitimate reasons, e.g. if you're writing fiction then the villains are going to behave badly and they're supposed to.

This is why people so hate the concept of "alignment" -- aligned with what? The premise is claimed to be something like the interests of humanity and then it immediately devolves into the political biases of the masterminds. And the latter is worse than nothing.