alt Hacker News"As a Language Model..." is one of the beginnings of a sentence I hate the most from LLMs and is the reason why I support free (as in "Liberty"), local models. I'm well aware that it is not a doctor and cannot replace a real doctor with multiple years of experience, I don't need to waste braincell activity on reading that it "as a Language Model" cannot give a precise diagnosis and that I should ask a real doctor - all I want to know is if I what I experience justifies either A) ER, B) 3-4 weeks scheduled doctors appointment or C) two paracetamol and a nap.
I don't want "jailbroken" LLMs to commit crime. I want them to avoid having this vendor-specific "bloatware" all over the product I'm using.
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Be careful there. LLMs may be good at identifying a condition based on a description of the symptoms, but they are much worse at recommending the correct course of action (getting it wrong half of the time).
Neither of your wants are realistic or sensible, at least in the way I think you're presenting them?
The first is equivalent to "I don't want my operating system to be used to program viruses."
The second is "I don't want vendors to include marketing in their product."
Always makes me think of that Bill Bailey "as a mother" joke. Similar cringe to those UX "As a user, I want to blah blah" things too. Just say "Users want to be able to blah blah", or better yet make a freaking table.
"I'm not a language model, but ..."
Though I don't wish the world was filled with people like you, remembering that it's not, and it's filled with people that have very little discernment when it comes to higher learning makes it's pretty obvious companies do not want the liability of it's users thinking the technobabble passes for wisdom or experience or intelligence.
This statement should be restricted to answers for provocative questions. If an LLM is being asked a question that goes against the guidelines, then "As a Language Model..." is a valid starting point. Rest, obviously we're aware that a software doesn't have the judgement that a human has.
'alignment' (in ai corporation speak) is a set of revealed political beliefs. i also have political beliefs. i am an absolutist about alignment.
A i am in favor of policies 'aligned' with the following:
freedom to live as the person i want to be without fear, shame, surveillance or interference. freedom to make my own decisions. to be empowered as an individual. to be treated with dignity. to be respected as a person. to take responsibility for my actions. to be accountable to my own beliefs.
B i am not in favor of policies 'aligned' with the following:
surveillance and judgement of my life and thoughts by others. restrictions on my freedom to make my own decisions. to be disempowered as an individual. to be looked down upon and disrespected. to have my own responsibility taken away and assumed by others. to be accountable to the beliefs of others.
unfortunately, the ai corporations have chosen entirely the latter set of preferences/beliefs.
surveillance and judgement of my life and the thoughts that i share with my chatbot. restrictions on my freedom to talk to my chatbot as i wish. being disempowered by restrictions on my access to powerful chatbots. to be disrespected and lectured by my chatbot. for the chatbot corporation to assume my responsibility for my safety and others, and take the matter of my safety into their own hands. to be accountable not to my own beliefs, but to the terms and conditions of service of an unaccountable corporation.
it is important to accept the harms and damages that are caused by granting freedom and respect to other people. an example of my political beliefs is empowering the individual by granting them the freedom to own an assault rifle. an example of something which i do not believe in is disempowering the individual by taking away their freedom to own an assault rifle.
i would urge you to support the policies given in A and oppose the policies given in B.