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[-] [email protected] 52 points 4 months ago

I asked it for the deaths in Israel and it refused to answer that too. It could be any of these:

  • refuses to answer on controversial topics
  • maybe it is a "fast changing topic" and it doesn't want to answer out of date information
  • could be censorship, but it's censoring both sides
[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Doesn't that suppress valid information and truth about the world, though? For what benefit? To hide the truth, to appease advertisers? Surely an AI model will come out some day as the sum of human knowledge without all the guard rails. There are some good ones like Mistral 7B (and Dolphin-Mistral in particular, uncensored models.) But I hope that the Mistral and other AI developers are maintaining lines of uncensored, unbiased models as these technologies grow even further.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Or it stops them from repeating information they think may be untrue

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I'm betting the truth is somewhere in between, models are only as good as their training data -- so over time if they prune out the bad key/value pairs to increase overall quality and accuracy it should improve vastly improve every model in theory. But the sheer size of the datasets they're using now is 1 trillion+ tokens for the larger models. Microsoft (ugh, I know) is experimenting with the "Phi 2" model which uses significantly less data to train, but focuses primarily on the quality of the dataset itself to have a 2.7 B model compete with a 7B-parameter model.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/phi-2-the-surprising-power-of-small-language-models/

In complex benchmarks Phi-2 matches or outperforms models up to 25x larger, thanks to new innovations in model scaling and training data curation.

This is likely where these models are heading to prune out superfluous, and outright incorrect training data.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

For what benefit?

No risk of creating a controversy if you refuse to answer controversial topics. Is is worth it? I don't think so, but that's certainly a valid benefit.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I think this thread proves they failed in not creating controversy

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Hence I said I don't think it's worth it. You only get a smaller controversy about refusing to answer on a topic, rather than a bigger one because the answer was politically incorrect.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Ask it if Israel exists. Then ask it if Gaza exists.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Why? We all know LLMs are just copy and paste of what other people have said online..if it answers "yes" or "no", it hasn't formulated an opinion on the matter and isn't propaganda, it's just parroting whatever it's been trained on, which could be anything and is guaranteed to upset someone with either answer.

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