What's so enraging about this "I can't answer that because it might..." is that it's patronizing. It places whoever was in charge of aligning the model above the user. It doesn't remove bias, it bakes it in. We all would be fine with these refusals if we shared the exact same ethics/ideology of OpenAI -- but of course we don't, because we're complex people with differing ideas about what text is okay and what is not.
It's a monstrously cynical vision. "Our users are too stupid not to hurt themselves. People are too stupid not to spot 'dangerous' LLM talk. The world is too stupid to wield this technology." Why are they so cynical? Why don't they have faith in their fellow man? It annoys me, but above all, it makes me sad.
It's a monstrously cynical vision. "Our users are too stupid not to hurt themselves. People are too stupid not to spot 'dangerous' LLM talk. The world is too stupid to wield this technology." Why are they so cynical? Why don't they have faith in their fellow man? It annoys me, but above all, it makes me sad.
Where is the optimism?