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False dichotomy: censoring controversal topics from a text generation model that is expected to make mistakes is not denying science like 'Trofim Lysenko’s atte
by rysertio 4y ago
False dichotomy: censoring controversal topics from a text generation model that is expected to make mistakes is not denying science like 'Trofim Lysenko’s attempts to warp agricultural science to communist ideology'.
And no one should take an AI generated text as fact. Chatgpt can say stuff like 'unicorns are real. Elephants can fly.' If the training dataset contains such fiction. You should be happy that chatGPT can at least give you some stats/factual data and not 2 paragraphs of gobbledygook.
- sasattack 4y agoAlso after he was found out and expelled from the Soviet Union he spent the rest of his career enjoying the funding of various American imperialist capitalists
- Amezarak 4y agoThe article is not about topics being censored because of potential controversy. It is about GPT offering a consistent party line on certain subjects, which it did not get from the dataset organically but which were specifically trained into the model so it would say the “right” things, not simply refuse to discuss them. The article gives examples of how to bypass the “don’t discuss this” programming with the right prompts, that’s not what they are talking about.