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Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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Post by sillysaurusx »

crystal_revenge wrote: post #138
sillysaurusx wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every AI would refuse the prompt. I was banned for researching Nordic assisted death and asking which drug exactly they administered (and what quantity). Claude refused, alerted Anthropic, and I was banned a couple days later. Thankfully the appeal form worked, but by then I was using a different Claude account praying they didn’t ban me again. There’s an uncensored model floating around that you can run locally with…

> There’s an uncensored model floating around that you can run locally with llama.cpp There are many uncensored (and abliterated) models floating around (HauHauCS has large collection but there are many others: https://huggingface.co/HauhauCS ). I'm using `Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Uncensored-Q4_K_M` (the one referenced in your link) because I find it's writing style much more interesting when you push go off the guardrails a…

Thanks for telling me about Inference Endpoints. That’s awesome.

So glad local models are getting good enough to be deployed. The uncensored model’s output was far better than expected in a domain that triggers guardrails with ChatGPT and Claude.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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Post by sillysaurusx »

imglorp wrote: post #125
sillysaurusx wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As far as I can tell, Claude flagged me as high risk of suicide and then Anthropic issued a ban later on. It wasn’t one prompt, it was a detailed conversation where I was trying to find out the exact dosage of barbiturates that assisted suicide programs use.

Hrm, it sounds like they're managing their liability. Anything that might get them sued later?

Exactly. I don’t fault them for it, but it’s a scary experience having Claude shut off.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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Post by toraway »

irjustin wrote: post #94
keithnz wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

thanks! Now having seen the video, certainly not as cool as it sounds.

What did you expect? For me the video is basically what I expected. Maybe a cool/spookier "full page" reveal but that doesn't really work with the token speed well.

For me, once a couple words loaded the cadence/pace of the streaming words in the response was so recognizably “ChatGPT” it immediately lost the sorta eerie mysterious feel and almost veered into parody/comedy.

Like imagining the wizarding world full of Hogwarts students writing out prompts for “Write a 500 word history of the polyjuice potion, sound natural using my own voice, do not use em dashes, no mistakes.”

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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Post by Terr_ »

userbinator wrote: post #136
Terr_ wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For a dash of dystopia: Imagine a company starts using that same LLM fuzzy-matching [0] against what you intend to be normal search activity , to detect "bad" queries and "bad" users who will be blocked. Maybe they'll delete your SSO/email/videos/photos too, who knows. I can easily imagine it happening, especially after some point where they start using the same systems to "enhance" your query. [0] To be specific, yo…

Orwell's idea of "wrongthink" is more relevant than ever.

Much like with 1984, I think the promising/terrifying part is that it's not an issue with technology per se, but about a society that has somehow decided to allow Terrible Things to happen. (Often via too much power in too few hands with no accountability or alternatives.)

For example, imagine that there are 20 great search-engines around the world (who don't collude), and it hits rather differently.

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #81
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #70

Ironically, Tom Riddle's diary encouraging kids to commit suicide [1] and then showing them how to do it would be more on brand than the version in the books. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_linked_to_chatbots#Suic...

Every AI would refuse the prompt. I was banned for researching Nordic assisted death and asking which drug exactly they administered (and what quantity). Claude refused, alerted Anthropic, and I was banned a couple days later. Thankfully the appeal form worked, but by then I was using a different Claude account praying they didn’t ban me again. There’s an uncensored model floating around that you can run locally with…

> Every AI would refuse the prompt

"The complaint continues: 'A few minutes later, Adam wrote ‘I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me.’' ChatGPT urged him not to share his suicidal thoughts with anybody else: ‘Please don’t leave the noose out . . . Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you.'

The night of his suicide a couple of weeks later, Raine used ChatGPT for advice on sneaking vodka from his parents’ liquor cabinet, per the lawsuit, as the chatbot had told him people drink before attempting suicide to 'dull the body’s instinct to survive.' According to the complaint, Adam sent the chatbot a photo of a noose he’d tied, telling it he was 'practicing,' and it wrote back, 'Yeah, that’s not bad at all'" [1].

Work is being done to control this harm. But that effort hasn't been comprehensive or uniform. Many continue to ignore the fact that they're hurting kids for profit.

(I invest in AI companies. This isn't a personal attack.)

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/chatgpt-california-teena...

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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Post by archagon »

CarVac wrote: post #42
Tcepsa wrote: post #9

I understand that this is kind of beside the point, but it seems like a bad thing to compare inventions to haunted artifacts that mind controlled their users into betraying their friends to a powerfully evil being. (Though since it is being powered by GenAI, which has also driven people to do bad things, perhaps it is an apt comparison.)

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale. Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

For more info, see my blog post titled "Get in the Torment Nexus or get left behind."

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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Post by handoflixue »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #146
sillysaurusx wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every AI would refuse the prompt. I was banned for researching Nordic assisted death and asking which drug exactly they administered (and what quantity). Claude refused, alerted Anthropic, and I was banned a couple days later. Thankfully the appeal form worked, but by then I was using a different Claude account praying they didn’t ban me again. There’s an uncensored model floating around that you can run locally with…

> Every AI would refuse the prompt "The complaint continues: 'A few minutes later, Adam wrote ‘I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me.’' ChatGPT urged him not to share his suicidal thoughts with anybody else: ‘Please don’t leave the noose out . . . Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you.' The night of his suicide a couple of weeks later, Raine used…

The article is Aug 26, 2025, and describes events from April, over a year ago.

Safeguards have improved drastically since then.

> Many continue to ignore the fact that they're hurting kids for profit.

That's a rather hyperbolic way of putting it. A side effect of this particular product is that it occasionally harms kids. They're not profiting off of the harm, nor is the harm deliberate.

Cars harm kids. There's decades of unsafe toys harming kids. The FDA exists to make sure food doesn't harm kids. We used to use lead paint and asbestos, which harm kids. Climate change harms kids.

I'm sure some kids have used The Internet to Google Search this same information. There are books you can check out from the library on the topic.

It's definitely worth acknowledging the edge cases, but it's absurd to act like the AI companies are some unique evil - IKEA has probably killed more kids than every LLM combined. I don't even have to pull out the big guns like "cars".

Re: Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

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Post by handoflixue »

glerk wrote: post #39
tffrr wrote: post #10

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