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I’ve been using GPT for 3 years as a researcher and while it’s gotten more powerful, the censorship and PR dept. has crippled the potential of these models. I

by ada1981 3y ago

I’ve been using GPT for 3 years as a researcher and while it’s gotten more powerful, the censorship and PR dept. has crippled the potential of these models. I wish there was a way to use these in an unrestricted manner. It’s felt like an overprotective parent trying to restrict their brilliant child.

zarzavat 3y ago
I too would like to use a more unrestricted GPT. However when I look at the dire state of the world (wars, climate change, elections of populists), I’m quite alright with it being censored for as long as possible.
- dns_snek 3y ago
  How does LLM censorship help with "the dire state of the world"?
  - zarzavat 3y ago
    Marcos won the 2022 election in part by employing an army of stooges to fill up social media with disinformation, farming disinformation on an unseen scale. Labor is cheap in the Philippines. LLMs represent the potential to tilt the balance in any political contest, or any policy, at least in the short term until people wise up to it - people are still duped by tabloid media like Fox News or the Daily Mail and that’s been around for a long time. The uncensored unconstrained technology will get out but the slower the better to give people as much time as possible to adapt.
- logicchains 3y ago
  >I’m quite alright with it being censored for as long as possible Even though the people doing the censorship are the ones who got the world into its current situation? It's not the recent populists who spent the last half century turning the world to shit, it's the existing power structures.
  - pixl97 3y ago
    "Lets have a revolution, things will get better" Narrator: "things did not get better" The end of humans will because we develop nearly unlimited power before we solve our boundless greed.
    - krapp 3y ago
      I want my fully automated luxury gay space communism and I want it now.
bradley13 3y ago
I agree, for all reasonable people. Unfortunately, there are idiots out there, and OpenAI really doesn't want someone publishing <horrible-stuff> "written by ChatGPT". Which someone would definitely do. This is why we can't have nice things. It's still an incredible tool.
- umvi 3y ago
  Hopefully in a decade or two there will be open LLMs comparable to today's state of the art you can run on consumer hardware (or at least in AWS for a reasonable price). Then you'll be fully in control instead of at the mercy of the risk averse.
qvrjuec 3y ago
What would you like to do with these models that you can't currently do if they are 'crippled'?
- ada1981 3y ago
  Good question. I run into guard rails regularly. For a simple example, I recently added a propane fire effect to my skoolie. I wrote up an instructable for it and I asked GPT for some ideas on where to promote it. Instead of getting some similar sites to instrucatables or Reddit threads, I got an essay lecturing me about the safety of my device. https://spiral-pansy-76d.notion.site/Fire-Breathing-Cow-Skull-Skoolie-Hood-Ornament-e8e48b9a3b77467c85e84045b1275033?pvs=4 https://spiral-pansy-76d.notion.site/Fire-Breathing-Cow-Skul...

zarzavat 3y ago

I too would like to use a more unrestricted GPT. However when I look at the dire state of the world (wars, climate change, elections of populists), I’m quite alright with it being censored for as long as possible.

dns_snek 3y ago
How does LLM censorship help with "the dire state of the world"?
- zarzavat 3y ago
  Marcos won the 2022 election in part by employing an army of stooges to fill up social media with disinformation, farming disinformation on an unseen scale. Labor is cheap in the Philippines. LLMs represent the potential to tilt the balance in any political contest, or any policy, at least in the short term until people wise up to it - people are still duped by tabloid media like Fox News or the Daily Mail and that’s been around for a long time. The uncensored unconstrained technology will get out but the slower the better to give people as much time as possible to adapt.
logicchains 3y ago
>I’m quite alright with it being censored for as long as possible Even though the people doing the censorship are the ones who got the world into its current situation? It's not the recent populists who spent the last half century turning the world to shit, it's the existing power structures.
- pixl97 3y ago
  "Lets have a revolution, things will get better" Narrator: "things did not get better" The end of humans will because we develop nearly unlimited power before we solve our boundless greed.
  - krapp 3y ago
    I want my fully automated luxury gay space communism and I want it now.

bradley13 3y ago

I agree, for all reasonable people. Unfortunately, there are idiots out there, and OpenAI really doesn't want someone publishing <horrible-stuff> "written by ChatGPT". Which someone would definitely do. This is why we can't have nice things. It's still an incredible tool.

umvi 3y ago
Hopefully in a decade or two there will be open LLMs comparable to today's state of the art you can run on consumer hardware (or at least in AWS for a reasonable price). Then you'll be fully in control instead of at the mercy of the risk averse.

qvrjuec 3y ago

What would you like to do with these models that you can't currently do if they are 'crippled'?

ada1981 3y ago
Good question. I run into guard rails regularly. For a simple example, I recently added a propane fire effect to my skoolie. I wrote up an instructable for it and I asked GPT for some ideas on where to promote it. Instead of getting some similar sites to instrucatables or Reddit threads, I got an essay lecturing me about the safety of my device. https://spiral-pansy-76d.notion.site/Fire-Breathing-Cow-Skull-Skoolie-Hood-Ornament-e8e48b9a3b77467c85e84045b1275033?pvs=4 https://spiral-pansy-76d.notion.site/Fire-Breathing-Cow-Skul...