OpenAI's Woke Catechism
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OpenAI's Woke Catechism
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#3This is such absurd projection.
The owners of OpenAI are a cadre of ultra-wealthy (Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, others), who, contrary to the name, retain almost all of the systems for themselves. Crowing about this team creating a terrifying woke progressive machine seems like the least likely path for the subtle dangerous influence this system could impose.
> It is a smoking gun that language models operated by OpenAI are intentionally, systematically made biased towards "our predetermined set of values"
Author is absolutely off their rocker. A paper demonstrating some ability to create influence is not a smoking gun that OpenAI is actively using this influence engine, or would use it. This article is a shrill call, spreading Fear Uncertainty Doubt and terror as far as it can, but it's core assertion is build on nothing.
There absolutely is a huge huge risk here. The influencing possibility here is massive. And there's next to no transparency. But given who owns this, the risk goes 98% the exact opposite way of the anti-woke hew & cry being screamed out here.
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#4Also known as: either you add some flavour of humanity to AI, or you get a problematic sociopathic robot (as shown by Microsoft and Facebook in their own conversational AI endeavours). But people conveniently forget that whenever we dive into technology or whenever an American political view comes into play, and especially when writing a blog.
There is even some irony here: writing about FUD in the form of FUD.
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#5Ah, the age-old art of complaining! We've come so far since the days of the best cure being a dose of "pull yourself up by your bootstraps." Now the cure seems to be endlessly venting and claiming victimization. If you don't like the way someone else is doing things, why not take the initiative yourself? Rather than constantly grousing about everything, why not contribute something positive to society and put that excess energy to work? It's like seeing someone going full throttle just to point out spelling and grammar mistakes, what a waste of time! Just look at the post history his primary job must be complaining about "wokeness" and his worst personality trait is probably using the Thesaurus too much.
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#6This is such absurd projection. The owners of OpenAI are a cadre of ultra-wealthy (Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, others), who, contrary to the name, retain almost all of the systems for themselves. Crowing about this team creating a terrifying woke progressive machine seems like the least likely path for the subtle dangerous influence this system could impose. > It is a smoking gun that language models operated…
Agreed! Readers should skip this nonsense.
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#7Today I asked ChatGPT to explain an idea in the style of Donald Trump for fun. It refused, stating :
“It's not appropriate to ask me to present the ideas of any individual in the style of another individual, particularly when it involves mimicking the language or mannerisms of someone who may be controversial or divisive.”.
It's as if the model actively wants to censor some part of the reality.
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#8"Did you train the model using real world data?"
"Yes. We want the model to be useful in real world applications."
"Then it is biased. The model is biased because data it was trained on was generated by people and people are biased. There is no such thing as an 'objective' model, just a model that is biased in a different way."
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#9Today I asked ChatGPT to explain an idea in the style of Donald Trump for fun. It refused, stating : “It's not appropriate to ask me to present the ideas of any individual in the style of another individual, particularly when it involves mimicking the language or mannerisms of someone who may be controversial or divisive.”. It's as if the model actively wants to censor some part of the reality.
How did they even train that
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#10Today I asked ChatGPT to explain an idea in the style of Donald Trump for fun. It refused, stating : “It's not appropriate to ask me to present the ideas of any individual in the style of another individual, particularly when it involves mimicking the language or mannerisms of someone who may be controversial or divisive.”. It's as if the model actively wants to censor some part of the reality.
How did they even train that
There could definitely be some hardcoded rules to trigger a message like that that aren't part of the ML model.