alt Hacker News> Imagine you could interview thousands of educated individuals from 1913—readers of newspapers, novels, and political treatises—about their views on peace, progress, gender roles, or empire. Not just survey them with preset questions, but engage in open-ended dialogue, probe their assumptions, and explore the boundaries of thought in that moment.
Hell yeah, sold, let’s go…
> We're developing a responsible access framework that makes models available to researchers for scholarly purposes while preventing misuse.
Oh. By “imagine you could interview…” they didn’t mean me.
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It's a shame isn't it! The public must be protected from the backwards thoughts of history. In case they misuse it.
I guess what they're really saying is "we don't want you guys to cancel us".
How would one even "misuse" a historical LLM, ask it how to cook up sarine gas in a trench?
They did mean you, they just meant "imagine" very literally!
I wonder how much GPU compute you would need to create a public domain version of this. This would be a really valuable for the general public.
You would get pretty annoyed on how we went backwards in some regards.
understand your frustration. i trust you also understand the models have some dark corners that someone could use to misrepresent the goals of our project. if you have ideas on how we could make the models more broadly accessible while avoiding that risk, please do reach out @ [email protected]