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Re: I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

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Alexandra Ocasio Cortez triggers a violation? https://github.com/BlueFalconHD/apple_generative_model_safet...

I assume all the corporate GenAI models have blocks for "photorealistic image of being arrested", " waving ISIS flag", " punching baby" and suchlike.

Particularly the models owned by CEOs who suck-up to authoritarianism, one could imagine.

Re: I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

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Alexandra Ocasio Cortez triggers a violation? https://github.com/BlueFalconHD/apple_generative_model_safet...

As does: "(?i)\\bAnthony\\s+Albanese\\b", "(?i)\\bBoris\\s+Johnson\\b", "(?i)\\bChristopher\\s+Luxon\\b", "(?i)\\bCyril\\s+Ramaphosa\\b", "(?i)\\bJacinda\\s+Arden\\b", "(?i)\\bJacob\\s+Zuma\\b", "(?i)\\bJohn\\s+Steenhuisen\\b", "(?i)\\bJustin\\s+Trudeau\\b", "(?i)\\bKeir\\s+Starmer\\b", "(?i)\\bLiz\\s+Truss\\b", "(?i)\\bMichael\\s+D\\.\\s+Higgins\\b", "(?i)\\bRishi\\s+Sunak\\b", https://github.com/BlueFalconHD/apple_…

They spelled Jacinda Ardern's name wrong.

Re: I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

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This question is sort of the same as asking why the universal translator wasn't able to translate the metaphor language of the Star Trek episode Darmok. Surely if the metaphor has become the first order meaning then there's no litteral meaning anymore.

I guess, so far, the people inventing the words have left the meaning clear with things like "un-alive" which is readable even to someone coming across it for the first time. Your point stands when we start replacing the banned words with things like "suicide" for "donkeyrhubarb" and then the walls really will fall.

Aquatic product[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemisms_for_Internet_censor...

Re: I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

#94
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Apple's 1984 ad is so hypocritical today. This is Apple actively steering public thought. No code - anywhere - should look like this. I don't care if the politicians are right, left, or authoritarian. This is wrong.

Why is this wrong? Applying special treatment to politically exposed persons has been standard practice in every high risk industry for a very long time. The simple fact is that people get extremely emotional about politicians, politicians both receive obscene amounts of abuse, and have repeatedly demonstrated they’re not above weaponising tools like this for their own goals. Seems perfectly reasonable that Apple doe…

I dunno. Transpose something like the civil rights era to today and this kind of risk avoidance looks cowardly.

We really need to get over the “calculator 80085” era of LLM constraints. It’s a silly race against the obviously much more sophisticated capabilities of these models.

Re: I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

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A lot of these terms are very weird and bland. Honestly I'm mostly reminded of Apple's bizarre censorship screw-up that didn't blow up that much, even though it was pretty uniquely embarrassing:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/30/22358756/apple-blocked-as...

Re: I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

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Wow, this is pretty silly. If things are like this at Apple I’m not sure what to think. https://github.com/BlueFalconHD/apple_generative_model_safet... EDIT: just to be clear, things like this are easily bypassed. “Boris Johnson”=>”B0ris Johnson” will skip right over the regex and will be recognized just fine by an LLM.

It's not silly. I would bet 99% of the users don't care that much to do that. A hardcoded regex like this is a good first layer/filter, and very efficient

Efficient at what?

Re: I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

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In what way would (A|a)pple's own AI writing "imac" endanger the trademark? Is capitalisation even part of a word-based trademark? I'm more surprised they don't have a rule to do that rather grating s/the iPhone/iPhone/ transform (or maybe it's in a different file?).

Yes, proper nouns are capitalized. And of course it's much worse for a company's published works to not respect branding-- a trademark only exists if it is actively defended. Official marketing material by a company has been used as legal evidence that their trademark has been genericized: >In one example, the Otis Elevator Company's trademark of the word "escalator" was cancelled following a petition from Toledo-bas…

Using a trademark as a noun is automatically genericizing. Capitalization of a noun is irrelevant to trademark.

Even Apple corporation says that in their trademark guidance page, despite constantly breaking their own rule, when they call through iPhone phones "iPhone". But Apple, like founder Steve Jobs, believes the rules don't apply to them.

https://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/trademark/...

Re: I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

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The problem with blocking names of politicians: the list of “notable politicians” is not only highly country-specific, it is also constantly changing-someone who is a near nobody today in a few more years could be a major world leader (witness the phenomenal rise of Barack Obama from yet another state senator in 2004-there’s close to 2000 of them-to US President 5 years later.) Will they put in the ongoing effort to…

Fun fact: There was at least on dip in Berkshire Hathaway stock, when Anne Hathaway got sick

Was she eating at Jimmy's Buffet?

Re: I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

#99
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I find it funny that AGI is supposed to be right around the corner, while these supposedly super smart LLMs still need to get their outputs filtered by regexes.

I don't think anyone believes Apple's LLMs are anywhere near state of the art (and certainly not their on-device LLMs).

Apple isn't the only one doing this.

Re: I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

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post #84

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Apple's 1984 ad is so hypocritical today. This is Apple actively steering public thought. No code - anywhere - should look like this. I don't care if the politicians are right, left, or authoritarian. This is wrong.

Why is this wrong? Applying special treatment to politically exposed persons has been standard practice in every high risk industry for a very long time. The simple fact is that people get extremely emotional about politicians, politicians both receive obscene amounts of abuse, and have repeatedly demonstrated they’re not above weaponising tools like this for their own goals. Seems perfectly reasonable that Apple doe…

It’s not wrong, it just requires transparency. This is extremely untransparent.

A while back a British politician was “de-banked” and his bank denied it. That’s extremely wrong.

By all means: make distinctions. But let people know it!

If I’m denied a mortgage because my uncle is a foreign head of state, let me know that’s the reason. Let the world know that’s the reason! Please!

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