It’s so dispiriting to me that we’ve achieved those closest thing yet to an “objective truth” machine (with the caveat of garbage in, garbage out, etc.) and these big companies are either afraid to actually let it exist, want to push their own politics, or a combination of the two.
replyA collection of statistical patterns is hardly objective truth. If that’s what you think an LLM is, you’re mistaken.
replySure, but in case you've been living under a rock for the past year, that's exactly what people have been using it for for 2 years now.
replyOf course, it's actually an improvement over a Google search.
And, yeah, a bit of finetuning will change the LLMs opinion on any subject. Which the big companies probably see as an advantage.
"closest thing yet" is still a long way from close; as you say, gin=gout, and the internet without an attempt to be our best selves is instead our loudest propagandists and all our cultural stereotypes.
replyOf course, humans are also impacted by these things, at best we can be a little deliberate about rejecting a few of the more on-the-nose examples.
So–called uncensored versions simply do not refuse addressing a topic. They do not guarantee an alignment with reality.
replyA truly uncensored model is impossible as human societies exist under various censorship regimes, anyways.