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Wow. So companies can’t control their own image now? They’re forced to let you trick some llm they host to spew out garbage? Such a weird take.
by ipython 3y ago
Wow. So companies can’t control their own image now? They’re forced to let you trick some llm they host to spew out garbage? Such a weird take.
- speeder 3y agoThey are absolutely allowed to do that. And PR firms, fact checking firms, etc... exist to help with that kind of thing. I am not saying a product like this shouldn't exist, I am just saying that CF making this offering is bad idea to CF, they are infrastructure company that now decided to participate in culture wars as if it was a PR company...
- ipython 3y agoYou've once again repeated the same line about "culture wars". How exactly is this different from any other tool? Should VS Code hit up an error if you write code to check in a regex for /liberal tears/? How about s/hitler//g? As far as I can see in the announcement, the tool itself does not present any particular viewpoint. Is filtering out PII data now all of a sudden part of some sort of culture war? Given the wide availability of "open source" models (in quotes because, while they're freely available, I don't believe they follow in the same spirit of true open source, with reproducible builds, etc), you can build an AI/LLM to do whatever you like, whether it's illegal in your locality or not. CloudFlare's customers want some sort of functionality to put guardrails around their LLM deployments, and they are offering it. As you say, companies that contract with CF are "allowed" to use this tool; CloudFlare is not mandating the use of the tool. Is infrastructure truly neutral? If so, you should read about how the Taliban (owner of the .af TLD) unilaterally deregistered the domain name `queer.af`. CloudFlare has famously deplatformed the Daily Stormer.