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Maybe this is a "guns don't kill people, people kill people argument" — but the safety risk is not, I would argue, in the model's response. The safety risk is t
by mrcwinn 2y ago
Maybe this is a "guns don't kill people, people kill people argument" — but the safety risk is not, I would argue, in the model's response. The safety risk is the user taking that information and acting upon it.
- lolinder 2y agoBut do we really believe that a significant number of people will listen to ChatGPT's moralizing about the ethics of shoplifting* and just decide not to do it after all? Why wouldn't they just immediately turn around and Google "how to catch shoplifters" and get on with their planning? The whole thing feels much more about protecting OpenAI from lawsuits and building up hype about how advanced their "AI" is than it does about actually keeping the world safer. * Or any other censored activity.
- taberiand 2y agoSeems obvious that this is first and foremost about protecting OpenAI. It's a shame it isn't simply done with with a few strong disclaimers "Open AI is not liable for the accuracy or use of information produced by the model etc etc", but maybe lobotomizing the public models let's them sell the full version privately to big companies at a premium