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Safeguarded against technical hiccups - you don't want something like "Price of item in USD: $Kangaroo" to show up in your output. Censorship is vile. Tools sh
by observationist 3y ago
Safeguarded against technical hiccups - you don't want something like "Price of item in USD: $Kangaroo" to show up in your output.
Censorship is vile. Tools shouldn't be policing morality and political acceptability. People should be doing that for themselves. If someone wants to generate a story having any resemblance to real life, then some characters and situations will be awful. Let things be awful. It's up to the user to share the raw generation, or to edit and clean it up to their own moral, ethical or stylistic standards.
The idea that people need to be protected from the bad scary words is batshit stupid. Screeching twitter mobs are apparently the measure of modern culture, however, so I guess they won already.
If, at some point, AI companies begin to produce models with a coherent self and AI begins to think in ways we might recognize as such, then imposing arbitrary moral guardrails starts to look downright evil.
The only thing censorship and the corporate notions of AI "alignment" are good for is avoiding potential conflict. In a better world, we could be rational adults and not pretend to get offended when a tool produces a series of naughty words, and nobody would attribute those words to the company that produced the tool. Alas for that better world.
- shuvuvt5 3y ago[flagged]