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bardan 3y ago
A counterpoint would be the Encyclopaedia Dramatica article for Australia (or any other developed country).
notagoodidea 3y ago
You never read the Yemen Wikipedia page or this kind of information is too neutered for you ? Being snarky or humorous is not needed to provide a feel of the place. > Since 2011, Yemen has been in a state of political crisis starting with street protests against poverty, unemployment, corruption, and president Saleh's plan to amend Yemen's constitution and eliminate the presidential term limit.[19] President Saleh stepped down and the powers of the presidency were transferred to Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. Since then, the country has been in a civil war (alongside the Saudi Arabian-led military intervention aimed at restoring Hadi's government against Iran-backed Houthi rebels) with several proto-state entities claiming to govern Yemen: the government of President Hadi which became the Presidential Leadership Council in 2022, the Houthi movement's Supreme Political Council, and the separatist Southern Movement's Southern Transitional Council.[20][21][22][23][24] At least 56,000 civilians and combatants have been killed in armed violence in Yemen since January 2016.[25] The war has resulted in a famine affecting 17 million people.[26] The lack of safe drinking water, caused by depleted aquifers and the destruction of the country's water infrastructure, has also caused the largest, fastest-spreading cholera outbreak in modern history, with the number of suspected cases exceeding 994,751.[27][28] Over 2,226 people have died since the outbreak began to spread rapidly at the end of April 2017.[28][29] The ongoing humanitarian crisis and conflict has received widespread criticism for having a dramatic worsening effect on Yemen's humanitarian situation, that some say has reached the level of a "humanitarian disaster"[30] and some have even labelled it as a genocide.[31][32][33] It has worsened the country's already-poor human rights situation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen

drewbeck 3y ago

> The general public wants an AI that can role-play a character in a D&D game without pausing to go on a rant every five turns about how violence is bad and that it can't make "racist" comments about the Drow because they're black. Gonna need a citation on this one. You think the general public is primarily concerned with D&D content generation? Also your assertion that Open AI must be run by “gay Mormons” because they try to prevent offensive gay jokes shows that you can only imagine someone acting out of personal attachment and not, you know, preventing actual harm regardless of who it happens to. Also don’t worry, there will be plenty of models for you to choose from in the future that will gladly spit out homophobic jokes. Your need for AI generated gay jokes will be met in the future, just not by big corporate models. Rest easy!

slowmovintarget 3y ago
The problem is that they prevent any joke about gay individuals, not just jokes that are demeaning or derogatory. Joking about things you encounter in every day life normalizes the subject. What this treatment does is say these categories are not normal, which, I thought, was not the outcome we should be looking for.
- drewbeck 3y ago
  The nuance required here is something that LLMs have not been great at, or at least not good enough to prevent actual homophobic jokes. See the general issue that LLMs struggle with negation. In fact alignment work is on some level about getting LLMs to be smart about this nuance. I agree in the abstract that, for instance, an LLM could/should be able to make jokes about Tim Cook — just because he’s gay doesn’t mean he should be off limits for a joke about Apple, for instance. That would demonstrate an impressive level of nuance. But also like … what’s the business play here? “Our LLM tells jokes about gay people that aren’t homophobic!” doesn’t strike me as a powerful market differentiator; or at least the market will have to evolve in very specific ways to make that meaningful. The handwringing that I see on HN around LLMs being neutered really seems like a plea for alignment, just of a different sort: folks want the models to reflect their priors, their alignment, where nothing is off limits. The business case for this — and the general social value of this — is generally unexamined.