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by stavros 543 days ago
> It's a bag of data and some math algorithms that generate text....

I agree with the general premise of too much "safety", but this argument is invalid. Humans are bags of meat and they can do some pretty terrible things.

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But what we're doing to these models is literally censoring what they're saying - not doing.

I don't think that anyone has any problems with stopping random AIs when they're doing crimes (or more realistically the humans making them do that) - but if you're going to make the comparison to humans in good faith, it'd be a person standing behind you, punishing you when you say something offensive.

What I'm saying is that the argument "they're math and data, therefore what they say is safe" is not a valid one.