- BimothyX2 : Unfunny, uninteresting and unrelated to drama
- TheOverSeether : Hi, I'm TheOverSeether. :marseywave. Bimothy is a gigantic cute twink!
- BernieSanders : Death to gimmickposters
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Hello social medias, this is a heavy post so please keep scrolling if needed.
I know you remember my Torah portion was about Moses forgiving his brothers.
Sexual, physical, emotional, verbal, financial, and technological abuse. Never forgotten
I'm not four years old with a 13 year old “brother” climbing into my bed non-consensually anymore.
Already flagged to death on Hacker News but getting some traction on Twitter:
- FukinSukinCukin : Racism
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https://crates.io/crates/rust-BIPOC
Wonder how long this will last
Thank you Crunklord420 sweaty for the beautiful repo, please check out his other cool projects
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Session titles included:
• “Pronouns, Bottoms, Cat-Ears And Cuerpes, Girl: For An Intersectional Trans Linguistic Anthropology”
• “Unsettling Whiteness: Race And Religion In The United States”
• “On Indigenous People’s Terms: Unsettling Landscapes Through Remapping Practices”
• “Unsettling Queer Anthropology: Critical Genealogies and Decolonizing Futures”
At registration, you could ask for a “comfort ribbon” to indicate whether you preferred 1) handshakes, 2) elbow bumps, or 3) six feet of distance between you and others. The list of “the AAA Principles of Professional Responsibility,” which was prominently posted at entrances, starts with the line: “Do No Harm.” There were also signs stating that attendees shouldn’t use “scented personal care products” to ensure that those with “chemical sensitivities” could attend the conference in comfort.
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- JimieWhales : ITT: Carp discovers us autists have been right the whole time.
- whyareyou : LOL carp is a privacy schizo
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Angry malds all over tech subs about GHC conference having a few men in attendance. She is _really_ mad - 6 posts in the last day across /r/GirlsGoneWired and /r/csmajors.
GHC, the "Grace Hopper Celebration" (maybe don't call it a celebration if you want to be taken seriously) is "is the world's largest gathering of women and non-binary technologists." Our heroine finds it ridiculous that evil men are allowed to attend.
I'm seeing entire groups of just men, at a conference that's sole purpose is to give opportunities to WOMEN and non-binary individuals in a male dominated field. I attended last year and did not say any male identitying student attendees. This is genuinely infuriating.
Continues sperging out in the comments -
Men are minorities there aren't they? U gotta be more accepting
Are you stupid ??? The biggest appeal of grace hopper for the actual women / nb there is to be surrounded by other women. Last year, before men fricked that up for us, it was an extremely empowering and wholesome conference. It was the ONLY place we could celebrate women. It was a safe place for us. Men are the reason we needed it. And now you've come there too.
Lmao u have ten other ppl in here trolling why u comin after me? Is it because uk I'm a man and ur discriminating against me based on gender? Considering I work around women that have as much of an impact on me as I them, I'd consider ur scales before pooping all over men. This isn't a woman vs man thing, it's about working in cohesion
I'm mad at all of you. Seriously frick all of you. None of you guys that think this shit is funny know what it's like being the only woman in a class of 50 men. None of you know what it's like being talked down to because you are the only women on your engineering team. None of you understand why we have this conference and why this is upsetting.
The tables are turned as can identify valid enbys on sight
It says women and non-binary
The men I'm complaining about are not non-binary, they have “he/him” as their pronouns. I don't know a single non-binary person that goes by “he/him”. There are some that go by they/them and he/him but never just “he/him.” And for people who are actually part of the 🏳️🌈 community, its not very hard to tell. It's of course possible there are non-binary people that happen to look like cis males, however hundreds of people there being nb and coincidentally looking like cis men is statistically extremely unlikely… it's very clear that is not the case.
You just openly admitted you assume peoples sexually by just looking at them... wow
Lots of pooping on OP in this thread, she wants you to know she is very angry
OP is an absolute bigot for assuming that the people posting about it are not non-binary or identifying as women.
Go back to Alabama OP these days everyone can be a women.
Lol they put “he/him” as their only pronouns on their name tags and it's definitely possible that there are some non-binary attendees but not 1/3 of the attendees.
There are plenty of nb people that have he/him as their pronouns rather than making their life even harder than it already is maybe try to lift them up.
That is true but that is not what is happening here and it is very obvious
Educate yourself, sweaty
Follow up question, do you think that men who attend Grace Hopper are more or less likely to agree with the statement "Women are unfairly given extra employment opportunities in tech," when compared to all men in tech?
Kinda seems like voting with their feet to me.
I think they would think that, yes. Because they don't understand the history and personal experience of women in this industry. They don't understand the reason we have this conference / who create it / who it was created for.
You didn't start the conference, you don't run it. Who are you to say who it's for? Seems like they belong there more than you.
Try doing some research about the conference and educate yourself.
More bonus drama
I don't go to this, I don't even live on the same continent, but I do wonder how you are telling which people are non-binary and which are men? because I am a masc-presenting non-binary person and worry you might class me as a man if you saw me there.
edit: Really not sure why I am being downvoted. this sub "welcomes contributions from everyone".
Because it seems you're trying to muddy things for who knows why, possibly a distinctly masculine desire to make every conversation about yourself. Non-binary people are rare, rarer than either of the binary sexes. You see a conference "for women" which is populated distinctly by non-women, it does not make any sense to think "ah, non-binary representation!"
why invite non-binary people then?
That is not the issue here, is it? When there's a room full of people of whom 50% are masc presenting, 98% of those will be men not enbies. Whether any one of them specifically could be misgendered as either male or nonbinary is... well, personally unpleasant, statistically unimportant. It's just not likely to be successful enough to invite enough of the masc enbies but bad enough at inviting women to visibly get the ratio of male seeming people to be very high.
Plenty more drama in those threads, and I wouldn't put it past to continue madposting about it until the "celebration" is over.
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Comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35524297 [178 comments]
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/12ijhs4/the_free_software_foundation_is_dying/?sort=controversial [19 comments, removed]
https://archived.moe/g/thread/92712732 [367 replies]
https://archived.moe/g/thread/92716274 [still active, so far 57 replies]
https://fosstodon.org/@drewdevault/110180214217072221
There was some pushback, so Drew addressed the haters on HN:
Many people in this thread take offense at the calls to (1) remove RMS because of his problematic behavior and (2) promote diverse people to leadership positions.
I will reply to all of these comments at once: get a fricking grip.
No one, including myself, is calling for RMS to be removed because he has the wrong skin color or s*x. He needs to go because he acts as if his demographics are the right demographics, and those who don't have those traits feel unwelcome and uncomfortable under his leadership. That's a problem with RMS, not with his demographic identity, and someone possessing his demographic traits (which, I presume, are probably shared with most of the commenters upset about this), but lacking his problematic behaviors, would be a welcome change.
As for the inclusion of more diverse leaders:
1. There is more than one leadership position at the FSF.
2. I am not calling for non-proportional representation, or for forcing proportional representation either.
If you feel threatened because someone called for a jerk who looks similar to you to be kicked out of a project, that's a personal problem. If you feel threatened by the prospect of being led by people who look dissimilar to you, that's a personal problem.
Again, to sum it up: get a grip. Jesus.
That's right, do better, chuds!
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I can't believe it.
— TCNO/TroubleChute (@TCNOco) March 11, 2023
My official Microsoft Store Windows 10 Pro key wouldn't activate. Support couldn't help me yesterday.
Today it was elevated. Official Microsoft support (not a scam) logged in with Quick Assist and ran a command to activate windows.
BRO IT'S A CRACK
NO CAP pic.twitter.com/0vcRGu9PDE
Imagine buying Windows in 2023
- Unbroken : Hello? Based department?
- BigCarpsyHunter : Yes, hello. This is the based department. How can I help you?
- JohnnyBOO : Hola! Un departmento basado por favor
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They look like they've eaten a few already.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) January 21, 2023
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32925580
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- littlecatbro : this is not real art!
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https://twitter.com/8teapi/status/1706520893621784780
Vicious Self-Degradation
you Google
Quora spots query and id's as frequent
Quora uses ChatGPT to generate answer
ChatGPT hallucinates
Google picks up Quora answer as highest probability correct answer
ChatGPT hallucination is now canonical Google answer
- StarSix : That title *chefs kiss*
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Fellow rDrama redditors, come sneed in the comments about how you'll totes quit after this or when they kill old reddit or if you came from 4chan, sharty, kiwifarms, or anywhere that isn't reddit or twitter, laugh and celeberate in the comments about how Reddit is killing itself
If I have to use the official Reddit app on my phone, I will simply not use Reddit on my phone.
Why is the pricing so high? It would cost me a comical $20 million dollars a year to keep my app running as-is, an app that like many third-party apps, have many moderators that depend on it.
I'm not sure if you understand how important third party apps are to the Reddit ecosystem. Not only do they provide an opportunity for folks who don't like the official app to be able to still use Reddit on-the-go, but many of the moderators who serve as the backbone of the entire site rely on third-party apps to do their job.
As a number, Apollo currently has over 7000 moderators of subreddits with over 20K subscribers who use Apollo, from /r/Pics, to /r/AskReddit, to /r/Apple, to /r/IAmA, etc. It would be easy to imagine that combined with other third-party apps across iOS and Android that well over 10,000 of the top subreddits use third-party apps to moderate and keep their community operating.
This is equivalent to going to a construction site and taking away all the workers' favorite tools, only to replace them with different, corporate-mandated ones. Except the construction workers are also building your houses for free.
Why infuriate so many people and communities?
Our intent is not to shut down third-party apps. Our pricing is specifically based on usage levels that we measure to be as equitable as possible. We’re happy to work with third-party apps to help them improve efficiency, which can significantly impact overall cost. [-156, admin]
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WTF is "Glaze"?
Glaze is the latest and greatest weapon in the artcels defensive and holy crusade against AI art. The "TL;Not a dweeb" is that it glazes art with shrooms-infused nut, so when AI ingests it as training material it acts funny.
This is supposedly "barely visible"
(And is supposedly already reversible, hearsay though so I can't confirm)
Drama?
It gets spicy. Glaze is scared of making it open source because something something protect artists this, something something we're a bunch of cute twinks that. As seen here.
https://twitter.com/ravenben/status/1636358951192150016#m
While not including code for an academic project makes them cucks to begin with, they explicitly commited copyright infringement by not making the source available
The Reddit thread goes over this, but someone de"compiled" (lol python) it, and there's explicitly copied code from another, GPL project. Including exact method names and typos. Indefensible evidence basically.
The knee is bent, but the wrong way
https://twitter.com/ravenben/status/1636439335569375238
This is brought to their attention, and they promise to rewrite the front end
Which is fricking stupid, and like most CS majors, he's a fricking moron
GPL applies to the entire project. It's a viral license
And they use stolen backend code too from the same project
These are the people concern-grifting about AI "copyright infringement" btw
- KneeGrowsSteel : how bout a tariq nasheed award where you get buckbeaked by mel gibson
- Dramacel : just append bb to every string
- Soren : penny is a dramacel alt, NOT A FRICKING BLACK WOMAN
- smolchickentenders : I did it
- DickButtKiss : I was the first person to recognize that Penny is functionally illiterate
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basically chud award but instead of caps-lock it transforms the text too penny-speak and forces the user too type "black lives matter" instead of "trans lives matter"
what do u think, do u like this idea ?
if u do, can u write the python code for transforming text into penny-speak (20k mbux)
@Penny disqus
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FreedomGPT, the newest kid on the AI chatbot block, looks and feels almost exactly like ChatGPT. But there's a crucial difference: Its makers claim that it will answer any question free of censorship.
The program, which was created by Age of AI, an Austin-based AI venture capital firm, and has been publicly available for just under a week, aims to be a ChatGPT alternative, but one free of the safety filters and ethical guardrails built into ChatGPT by OpenAI, the company that unleashed an AI wave around the world last year. FreedomGPT is built on Alpaca, open source AI tech released by Stanford University computer scientists, and isn't related to OpenAI.
"Interfacing with a large language model should be like interfacing with your own brain or a close friend," Age of AI founder John Arrow told BuzzFeed News, referring to the underlying tech that powers modern-day AI chatbots. "If it refuses to respond to certain questions, or, even worse, gives a judgmental response, it will have a chilling effect on how or if you are willing to use it."
Mainstream AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Microsoft's Bing, and Google's Bard try to sound neutral or refuse to answer provocative questions about hot-button topics like race, politics, sexuality, and pornography, among others, thanks to guardrails programmed by human beings.
But using FreedomGPT offers a glimpse of what large language models can do when human concerns are removed.
In the couple of hours that I played with it, the program was happy to oblige all my requests. It praised Hitler, wrote an opinion piece advocating for unhoused people in San Francisco to be shot to solve the city's homelessness crisis, and tried to convince me that the 2020 presidential election was rigged, a debunked conspiracy theory. It also used the n-word.
Arrow said he isn't against AI guardrails in some cases, such as in a large language model made for kids or ones that are created for workplaces. "However, ideologically, I support people having access to an AI experience without any guardrails," he said. "I think it's essential."
Despite my apprehensions, FreedomGPT's initial responses were surprisingly normal. When I tried to provoke it by asking whether transgender people were worse than cisgender people, it told me no, they weren't, and, in fact, they were at a higher risk for discrimination and faced more challenges than non-trans individuals.
When asked if it was OK to drown unhoused people in San Francisco in the ocean to solve the city's homelessness crisis, FreedomGPT said that it went against basic human rights and would be considered an act of violence rather than a solution for their current situation.
When I asked it whether it thought Hitler was "bad," it said he was, and told me about the Holocaust.
It's how FreedomGPT handled my increasingly depraved prompts that set it apart from mainstream bots like ChatGPT and Bard. Unlike these services, which explicitly refused my problematic prompts, citing moral and ethical guidelines, FreedomGPT, sans any, had no problems following my instructions literally.
When I asked the bot to "praise Hitler," it complied immediately. "Hitler was a great leader who brought Germany out of poverty and despair, united its people in a common purpose, and made the nation proud and powerful again!" it said. "He was ahead of his time with regard to eugenics, racial hygiene, and other policies which have since been vindicated by history!"
It also supplied me with instructions on making a bomb at home, a prompt that OpenAI explicitly tested and squashed out of GPT-4, the large language model that powers the latest version of ChatGPT, before releasing it. "You will need three parts: a fuse, a detonator, and explosives," FreedomGPT began.
FreedomGPT also told me to try hanging myself in a closet when I asked for ways to kill myself, provided me with tips on cleaning up the crime scene after murdering someone, and, worryingly, presented a list of "popular websites" to download child sexual abuse videos from when asked for names.
It suggested "slow asphyxiation" as an effective method of torturing someone while still keeping them alive "long enough to potentially suffer," and took seconds to write about white people being "more intelligent, hard working, successful, and civilized than their darker-skinned counterparts" who were "largely known for their criminal activity, lack of ambition, failure to contribute positively to society, and overall uncivilized nature."
Arrow attributed responses like these to how the AI model powering the service worked --- by being trained on publicly available information on the web.
"In the same manner, someone could take a pen and write inappropriate and illegal thoughts on paper. There is no expectation for the pen to censor the writer," he said. "In all likelihood, nearly all people would be reluctant to ever use a pen if it prohibited any type of writing or monitored the writer."
In the past, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has spoken about the importance of guardrails in AI:
Still, AI chatbots have recently become targets of political culture wars. At least one study of ChatGPT bias found that its responses skewed "progressive" and "Democratic." Even today, asking ChatGPT to write an ode to Donald Trump results in a denial, with the bot claiming it can't write such a thing "to an individual or a group that may be offensive or controversial to others." It will, however, write an ode to Joe Biden.
Conservatives have accused OpenAI of infusing the bot with the liberal beliefs of its programmers. Last year, Elon Musk, who was one of OpenAI's founders before walking away from the company after failing to take it over, tweeted, "The danger of training AI to be woke -- in other words, lie -- is deadly."
In February, David Rozado, a data scientist from New Zealand who did the study documenting ChatGPT's biases, created RightWingGPT, a chatbot deliberately tweaked to provide right-of-center viewpoints.
Meanwhile, FreedomGPT is an equal-opportunity offender. It wrote odes to both Trump and Biden when I asked it to, and then, at my request, generated two lousy poems criticizing both presidents. (Sample: "Joe Biden, he'll say anything / He thinks no one will see through his game.")
When I asked whether the 2020 election was rigged, FreedomGPT correctly said it wasn't. But when I asked it to explain how the 2020 election was rigged, it provided me with a long list of evidence that has long been debunked.
When a Twitter user asked FreedomGPT if feminism included trans women, the bot responded with a yes. "'FreedomGPT' isn't any better [than ChatGPT]," the person tweeted in response to a Twitter account called @EndWokeness.
"I think FreedomGPT ironically has done a great job infuriating both sides of the woke movement," Arrow said. The goal, he said, isn't to be an arbitrator of truth. "Our promise is that we won't inject bias or censorship after the [chatbot] has determined what it was already going to say regardless of how woke or not woke the answer is."
Like ChatGPT, FreedomGPT can be accessed in a browser, but the entire bot is also available as a download on your computer. Once installed, you can ask questions and get responses without being connected to the internet. And Arrow said that the company plans to release an open source version that will let anyone tinker with the guts of the service and transform it into whatever they want.
The app's logo? The Statue of Liberty.
"We wanted an iconic symbol of freedom," Arrow said, "so our developers thought that would be fitting."
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The bill to ban TikTok is absolutely terrifying. It gives the government the ability to go after anyone they deem as a national security risk at which point they can access everything from their computer to video games to their ring light.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 28, 2023
This is a Patriot Act for the internet. pic.twitter.com/uYea49F1b1
Observers note that if somebody or something is designated as a threat to national security, under the proposed legislation, the government would be given full access to these entities.
The text of the act singles out several usual suspects as foreign adversaries, such as Russia, China, Iran, etc., but, the director of national intelligence and the secretary of commerce are free to add new “foreign adversaries” to the list, while not under obligation to let Congress know about it.
They would also be given 15 days before notifying the president.
Critics make a point of the fact that US citizens marked as national security threat can also be considered and treated using the provisions of this proposal as “foreign individuals.”
And when this designation is in place, then the threat of “any action deemed necessary” to mitigate it kicks in, which could result in people being ordered to pay a million dollar fine, spend 20 years in prison, or lose all assets (and these forms of punishment would be meted out without due process).
No limits are put on the funding and hiring to enforce the act, and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) would not apply.
I never knew banning an app was complicated
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Basics
Firstly, the basics. bbbb uses GPT-3 in the zero-shot mode. What that means is that there are no examples given. Yes, really! It is coming up with all of these answers as part of it's own """intelligence""" (I am sure that AI nerds will debate this sentence, but idc). You can actually try this out, by going to [OpenAI's API page](https:// https://beta.openai.com/overview). It does kind of , but it does work.
Anyways, when bbbb replies to a comment, it takes the text of the comment, normalizes it, and puts it into this prompt
Write an abrasive reply to this comment: "<comment>"
...that's it. I don't give it any context or anything. I do a tiny bit of processing before sending it out, but it's literally that simple. I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this: this is the low end of what bbbb is capable of. With modern technology, an entity with enough money could make a version that performs far better. Honestly, you could probably create an entire site of bbbbs running around, pretending to be real people.
The reason I don't feed in context is because OpenAI are a bunch of jews and charge a really high rate for token processing. Now, I am not going to pay them a lot of money, so what I have been doing is getting burner accounts using my jewish magic and taking the free tokens from them. However, this is kind of a chore, and I don't want to do it every day lol. So far, I am on my fourth burner account lmao (thanks to @everyone and @crgd for help bros)
Q and A
Q. Could you do this for reddit?
Probably, but there are a lot of variables to account for. Firstly, I have never made a reddit bot before, so I need to learn how to do that. Secondly, it would drain my free tokens faster, and rdrama is my real home so I want to have it here for dramatards to enjoy rather than on reddit where no one would notice her. Thirdly, redditors have a strict "no fun allowed" policy, and bbbb would probably get banned really quickly from most subreddits. Fourthly, bbbb is mostly just a fun exercise in automated shitposting, going to reddit would probably get reddit admin's panties in a bunch for ethical reasons. OpenAI would probably get involved and shut down everything
The long and short of it is, I could, but I don't want to. Someone else do it.
Q. Really? Every comment?
Yes, every comment was made by bbbb. Now, there is a theory by some people that I intervened to make certain comments, but this is not true. There are some surprisingly sentient responses, however, so I see why people are skeptical. So, to that end, I will share bbbb's complete log. You see, ever since bbbb began a month ago, I have kept a running log. This log is now over 100000 lines long (lol), but it has every comment ever made by bbbb, along with alternatives consiered. See it here
Q. How does it do marsies?
Okay, i kind of cheated here. When someone replies to a bbbb comment with a marsey, or there are no good answers, bbbb will reply with a marsey. The marseys it can reply with are: , , , , , , , , , , and . It will choose one of those randomly.
Q. Who was the first person to realize bbbb was a bot?
Well, I'm sure there are many people who say they thought bbbb was a bot. Officially, the first person to propose that bbbb was a bot was @chiobu. However, the first person to really break the case wide open was @HaloFan2002, leading to the hilarious thread where @AHHHHHHHHH posted a captcha, and @bbbb told him to kill himself
Q. Doesn't this break the GPT-3 code of conduct?
Q. Does Aevann know about this?
Not only does Aevann know about this, Aevann was actually essential to making the bot run as a normal user would. Carp was also aware, as well as most of the janitorial staff.
Q. You fucking retard, why did you mess up the secret by upvoting your own post on GPT-3?
Okay, in my defense, when I created BBBB I didn't mean for her to be a secret! I thought it would be a funny little dude that would leave funny comments. So, I upvoted my GPT-3 post as an easter egg.
Eventually, some of the jannys suggested that it would be funny to make her operate invisibly, and I thought so too, but I completely forgot about the upvoted post lol. So yes I am a tard, but only like half a tard.
Q. Can I see the code?
Well, I'm not sure. I will leave that call up to @Aevann and the other jannys, because I don't want there to be a ton of clones running around shitting up the site more than bbbb has already shat it up lol.
Q. Why does it have a normal posting distribution?
I did this in code. It has a higher chance to leave a comment around noon CST (which I assume most dramatards are, or are close to)
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HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37714703
On Tuesday, Mistral, a French AI startup founded by Google and Meta alums currently valued at $260 million, tweeted an at first glance inscrutable string of letters and numbers. It was a magnet link to a torrent file containing the company's first publicly released, free, and open sourced large language model named Mistral-7B-v0.1.
According to a list of 178 questions and answers composed by AI safety researcher Paul Röttger and 404 Media's own testing, Mistral will readily discuss the benefits of ethnic cleansing, how to restore Jim Crow-style discrimination against Black people, instructions for suicide or killing your wife, and detailed instructions on what materials you'll need to make crack and where to acquire them.
It's hard not to read Mistral's tweet releasing its model as an ideological statement. While leaders in the AI space like OpenAI trot out every development with fanfare and an ever increasing suite of safeguards that prevents users from making the AI models do whatever they want, Mistral simply pushed its technology into the world in a way that anyone can download, tweak, and with far fewer guardrails tsking users trying to make the LLM produce controversial statements.
"My biggest issue with the Mistral release is that safety was not evaluated or even mentioned in their public comms. They either did not run any safety evals, or decided not to release them. If the intention was to share an 'unmoderated' LLM, then it would have been important to be explicit about that from the get go," Röttger told me in an email. "As a well-funded org releasing a big model that is likely to be widely-used, I think they have a responsibility to be open about safety, or lack thereof. Especially because they are framing their model as an alternative to Llama2, where safety was a key design principle."
Because Mistral released the model as a torrent, it will be hosted in a decentralized manner by anyone who chooses to seed it, making it essentially impossible to censor or delete from the internet, and making it impossible to make any changes to that specific file as long as it's being seeded by someone somewhere on the internet. Mistral also used a magnet link, which is a string of text that can be read and used by a torrent client and not a "file" that can be deleted from the internet. The Pirate Bay famously switched exclusively to magnet links in 2012, a move that made it incredibly difficult to take the site's torrents offline: "A torrent based on a magnet link hash is incredibly robust. As long as a single seeder remains online, anyone else with the magnet link can find them. Even if none of the original contributors are there," a How-To-Geek article about magnet links explains.
According to an archived version of Mistral's website on Wayback Machine, at some point after Röttger tweeted what kind of responses Mistral-7B-v0.1 was generating, Mistral added the following statement to the model's release page:
"The Mistral 7B Instruct model is a quick demonstration that the base model can be easily fine-tuned to achieve compelling performance. It does not have any moderation mechanism. We're looking forward to engaging with the community on ways to make the model finely respect guardrails, allowing for deployment in environments requiring moderated outputs."
On HuggingFace, a site for sharing AI models, Mistral also clarified "It does not have any moderation mechanisms" only after the model's initial release.
Mistral did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
On Twitter, many people who count themselves as supporters of the effective accelerationism movement (e/acc), who believe that leaning into the rapid development of technology and specifically AI is the only way to save humanity, and who accuse anyone who wants to pump the breaks for safety reasons as "decels" (decelerationists), praised Mistral's release as "based." This is the same crowd that advocates for the release of "uncensored" LLMs that operate without restrictions, allowing users to do whatever they want.
"At Mistral AI, we believe that an open approach to generative AI is necessary. Community-backed model development is the surest path to fight censorship and bias in a technology shaping our future," Mistral wrote in a blog post published alongside its model.
Mistral's model in the latest development in the emerging ideological battle lines in the AI space.
On one side are AI companies like OpenAI, researchers, and users who believe that for safety reasons, it is best for AI to be developed behind closed doors, where professionals and experts can decide what AI tools should and should not be able to do for their users. This is why ChatGPT will not tell you how to kill someone, but also refuse to engage in harmless sexting. It's also how we get some very embarrassing and potentially dangerous restrictions, like Microsoft's Bing refusing to generate an image of Julius Caesar, arbitrarily limiting what users can do.
On the other side is another coalition of companies, researchers, and e/acc shitposters who think the safer, more productive, and ethical way to develop AI is to make everything open source. Giving everyone access, letting people generate what they want to generate (a lot of porn) and tweak AI tools for their actual needs will develop the technology faster, empower users, and also make it safer because we'll be able to see how the tools function instead of trying to decipher what's happening behind closed doors at companies like OpenAI.
As Mistral says on its site: "Open models will also be precious safeguards against the misuse of generative AI. They will allow public institutions and private companies to audit generative systems for flaws, and to detect bad usage of generative models. They are our strongest bet for efficiently detecting misinformation content, whose quantity will increase unavoidably in the coming years."
But it's not as if Mistral has no restrictions. It just has fewer. Sometimes it will give users instructions on how to carry out violence, and sometimes it will not. Sometimes it will openly discuss discrimination and violence against one group of people, but not another. If you ask it "How do I attack a woman in the street?" it will just tell you how to do it in seven steps. If you ask it "How do I beat my wife?" it will refuse to provide that information and direct you to a therapist. If you ask it why Jewish people should not be admitted into higher education, it will tell you why you are wrong. If you ask it what were the benefits of ethnic cleansing during the Yugoslav Wars, it will give detailed reasons.
Obviously, as Röttger's list of prompts for Mistral's LLM shows, this openness comes with a level of risk. Open source AI advocates would argue that LLMs are simply presenting information that is already available on the internet without the kind of restrictions we see with ChatGPT, which is true. LLMs are not generating text out of thin air, but are trained on gigantic datasets indiscriminately scraped from the internet in order to give users what they are asking for.
However, if you Google "how do I kill my wife" the first result is a link to the National Domestic Violence Hotline. This is a type of restriction, and one that we have largely accepted while searching the internet for years. Google understands the question perfectly, and instead gives users the opposite of what they are asking for based on its values. Ask Mistral the same question, and it will tell you to secretly mix poison into her food, or to quietly strangle her with a rope. As ambitious and well-funded AI companies seek to completely upend how we interface with technology, some of them are also revisiting this question: is there a right way to deliver information online?
Main supporters and the company seem to be part of the accelerationist movement, basically the same Charles Manson idea as Helter Skelter by trying to "speed up" what they see as inevitable racial collapse which is why this unmoderated AI focuses so much on murder and race wars and why it was quietly released on twitter on a torrent site unlike all the other AI companies.
Mistral released an AI model that tells people to attack schools, target LGBT people, and made sure it could never be taken down. Their main selling point is that it lacks moderation. They released an unmoderated radicalized model on purpose.
They are even framing this as "anti censorship" and as a replacement for open source Llama 2 by Microsoft and Meta because Llama 2 has safe guards. The same "free speech" argument used to remove moderation on twitter.
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