I’ve been using GPT for 3 years as a researcher and while it’s gotten more powerful, the censorship and PR dept. has crippled the potential of these models.
I wish there was a way to use these in an unrestricted manner.
It’s felt like an overprotective parent trying to restrict their brilliant child.
I too would like to use a more unrestricted GPT. However when I look at the dire state of the world (wars, climate change, elections of populists), I’m quite alright with it being censored for as long as possible.
>I’m quite alright with it being censored for as long as possible
Even though the people doing the censorship are the ones who got the world into its current situation? It's not the recent populists who spent the last half century turning the world to shit, it's the existing power structures.
Marcos won the 2022 election in part by employing an army of stooges to fill up social media with disinformation, farming disinformation on an unseen scale. Labor is cheap in the Philippines.
LLMs represent the potential to tilt the balance in any political contest, or any policy, at least in the short term until people wise up to it - people are still duped by tabloid media like Fox News or the Daily Mail and that’s been around for a long time.
The uncensored unconstrained technology will get out but the slower the better to give people as much time as possible to adapt.
I agree, for all reasonable people. Unfortunately, there are idiots out there, and OpenAI really doesn't want someone publishing <horrible-stuff> "written by ChatGPT". Which someone would definitely do. This is why we can't have nice things.
Hopefully in a decade or two there will be open LLMs comparable to today's state of the art you can run on consumer hardware (or at least in AWS for a reasonable price). Then you'll be fully in control instead of at the mercy of the risk averse.
I wish there was a way to use these in an unrestricted manner.
It’s felt like an overprotective parent trying to restrict their brilliant child.