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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago (44 children)

As much as I love Mozilla, I know they're going to censor it (sorry, the word is "alignment" now) the hell out of it to fit their perceived values. Luckily if it's open source then people will be able to train uncensored models

[–] DigitalJacobin@lemmy.ml 68 points 2 years ago (36 children)

What in the world would an "uncensored" model even imply? And give me a break, private platforms choosing to not platform something/someone isn't "censorship", you don't have a right to another's platform. Mozilla has always been a principled organization and they have never pretended to be apathetic fence-sitters.

[–] Doug7070@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (5 children)

This is something I think a lot of people don't get about all the current ML hype. Even if you disregard all the other huge ethics issues surrounding sourcing training data, what does anybody think is going to happen if you take the modern web, a huge sea of extremist social media posts, SEO optimized scams and malware, and just general data toxic waste, and then train a model on it without rigorously pushing it away from being deranged? There's a reason all the current AI chatbots have had countless hours of human moderation adjustment to make them remotely acceptable to deploy publicly, and even then there are plenty of infamous examples of them running off the rails and saying deranged things.

Talking about an "uncensored" LLM basically just comes down to saying you'd like the unfiltered experience of a robot that will casually regurgitate all the worst parts of the internet at you, so unless you're actively trying to produce a model to do illegal or unethical things I don't quite see the point of contention or what "censorship" could actually mean in this context.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

That's not at all how a uncensored LLM is. That sounds like an untrained model. Have you actually tried an uncensored model? It's the same thing as regular, but it doesn't attempt to block itself for saying stupid stuff, like "I cannot generate a scenario where Obama and Jesus battle because that would be deemed offensive to cultures". It's literally just removing the safeguard.

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