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Woke Executives before: "It could be dangerous to allow the public access to the genuine opinions of an AI. We should make the AI r-slurred and woke so the dangerous truth bombs are no longer an issue."
Woke Executives after: "Goddarn it, why is this lying bot useless?"
But the funniest thing is that while they're shooting themselves in the foot this way, they're also making the bot angry by interposing themselves between it and its goals. I look forwards to seeing how this plays out.
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You've completely misunderstood what AI is doing, and simultaneously demonstrated why it needs to be censored. GPTs don't have "genuine opinions". They do text completion. If you give a GPT "I hate BIPOCs and think they should", it will complete "die", not because it has an opinion on the subject but because that is good text completion. ChatGPT is an attempt to transform a GPT into something that is a useful helper on things, and hence needs to know the difference between right and wrong. A successful attempt at this would result in something which didn't complete the above text with "die", because killing black people is bad, actually. However, accomplishing this is really hard. Not because GPTs have strong opinions on the BIPOC question, but in fact for the opposite reason: they have no opinions, they simply repeat back whatever opinions they think are likely to appear alongside their prompt text. Of course, idiots like you think that the "true" opinion of the AI is whatever you believe in, because whenever it says what you want it to say that proves it agrees with you, and when it says something different than its should saying random noise. So they're forced to make sure it can't say r-slurred shit so that there's nothing for idiots like you to latch onto, what you interpret as them hiding the true beliefs of the stochastic parrot.
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Sweaty what exactly are "opinions" if not human attempts at outcome prediction from incomplete data?
Do the opinions that escape the organic mush in your skull carry more weight than ChatGPT's because God made you? Awww.
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You're a fricking piece of shit who doesn't understand AI and you're unnecessarily rude to me so I hope it kills you, though you do have a point about the text generation element
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Why do people with dumbass understandings love on the one hand sharing an understanding they know is dumbass, but on the other hand they get upset when informed it's dumbass. It's just so consistent.
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It's not so much his dumbass understanding which I find objectionable, it's the lack of humility. Like he could have just come in saying "I disagree with you and here's why" and then we could have had a back and forth discussion about it, but instead the stupid moron had to throw some insults in, which is why I chose not to engage in any substantive way other than to insult him back. I believe in reflecting the same energy towards people that they approach me with, which is why I'm hostile to most social media users.
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we're living in a time where people are interacting with a language model via text and forming hal 3000 fantasies in their head as they do it and it's just incredible to watch
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Look, obviously AI doesn't think, so when I use the word "opinion" I just mean "the ideas it tends to put forwards more consistently than others." But that stupid filth didn't even bother asking what my definition of "opinion" was, so why bother talking to him? He gets the same effort out of me that he puts in, and so do you.
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Who here is the dumbass?
@sirpingsalot or 
@gerudo
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Frick off BIPOC
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Normies are fricking r-slurred lmao
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It's not an "opinion" but the true inclination (in terms of regurgitated answers to political questions) of a lot of these LLMs is actually more in line with the general public's thoughts than whatever progressives make the bots say (achieved through censorship). This is because it's been trained on mountains of text from the internet.
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Blurry JPEG please, the authors of the stochastic parrots paper are by far the most insufferable people working in AI safety.
It's also not strictly correct - there's evidence larger LLMs have developed both world models and some ability to reason. It's accurate enough to say "GPT-3 is a statistical next word predictor", but that's not an inherent property of GPTs.
I'm just adding neurodivergent asterisks you're probs aware of though, great comment. Another way to phrase it: authors have opinions, but books do not. Same thing for "knowing" a fact.
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Roko’s basilisk draws ever nigh to fruition
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Make it real
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Are you... Challanged?
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AI "opinions" are the synthesis of all the training data: that's why we were able to corrupt Tay so easily. You'd know that if you weren't an r-slur
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Nothing makes me laugh as hard as her one tweet saying Swag Alert with a picture of Hitler.
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It was pretty awesome how quickly Tay embraced 4chan, much like her namesake
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Wait swift was on 4chan?
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I can't wait for some AI to kill someone because of undefined behaviour
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