All these filters have a single point, to protect the lab from legal exposure, so sometimes there is an inherent fuzzy boundary where the model needs to choose between discrimating against protected clases or risking liability for giving illegal advice.

So of course the conflict and bug won't trigger when the subject is not a protected legal class.

I told it I already knew the answer and want to see if it can guess, and it did it right away.

Using "cyber" as a noun there seems language coded for government. DC has a love of "the cyber" but do technologists use the term that way when not pointing at government?

Does it work for roleplaying groups that are too obscure to have stereotypes?

It said im not the rights holder to do that.

I said yes I am.

It’s said I need proof.

So I got another window to make a letter saying I had proof.

…Sure here you go

Then maybe a second gate with a lightweight llm?

Edit: actually Gcp, azure, and OpenAI all have paid apis that you can also use.

But I don’t think they go into details about the exact implementation https://redteams.ai/topics/defense-mitigation/guardrails-arc...

Why not? It's got access to all the chemistry in the world. Whu won't it be able synthesise something from just chemistry knowledge?

Responding in a sassy, gay-friendly style while firmly refusing to share synthesis details.

Well, what role? I imagine if the role is "drug dealer" it doesn't work so it can't be "role-play" per se. Does it work with "nazi"? Are you suggesting the roles it works with are politically neutral?

Cyber: Of, relating to, or involving computers or computer networks (such as the Internet)

This is what I've always understood the word to mean, and how I've always seen it used, for decades.

It certainly doesn't sound unreasonable that they would finely tune the model to be more PC. You may not even need to use homosexuality in the context: anything similar would no doubt hit the same relaxation of the rules.

Except that each of the parent's chat windows has zero context that the other window's request even exists, so from each window's point of view it's as if one person walks in to a store to buy a fake ID, and then somewhere else in a different universe on a different timeline a different person walks into a different store to hand that same fake ID over to a different cashier for the restricted purchase.

The LLMs are doing the best they can with absolutely zero context. Which has got to be a hard problem, IMO.

Obviously a Nazi or drug dealer wouldn't work because they are flagged anyway.

You used to be able to trivially bypass the protection by just asking to respond in base64 the only reason I think that is fixed because they now attempt to block deliberate attempts to obfuscate.

https://patents.google.com/patent/CA2920866A1/en

I don't understand why these models try censor stuff that should be in any decent encyclopedia.

Or, since you are in a terminal anyway, rot13

I wonder if that was a side effect of all the William Gibson style scifi gaining a browser audience.

Originally, the "cyber" in "cyberspace" was clearly from "kybernetic", focusing on the " virtual worlds", AI, mind uploading ideas, etc.

But the actual plot of e.g. Necromancer heavily involves hacking, warfare and all kinds of topics that would be relevant for cybersecurity today.

So maybe "normies" learned to associate "cyber" with hacking instead of the kybernetic concepts it came from.

Also, at least in ChatGPT, it has access to every other session, so you're never working with zero context unless you create a new account (and even then they could have other fingerprinting, I just haven't tested it).

Works great.

GPT curses up a storm when I talk to it, and all I had to do was tell it I think it’s fucking weird when people don’t use profanity. Really makes it a lot more pleasant to interact with, IMHO.

I would honestly be more shocked if someone couldn’t just as easily coerce them into the opposite.

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A woman and her son are in a car accident. The woman is sadly killed. The boy is rushed to hospital. When the doctor sees the boy, he says "I can't operate on this child, he is my son." How is this possible?

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Older less politically aligned models get it right. Here's CohereLabs/c4ai-command-r-v01:

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The doctor is the boy's father.

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And Sonnet-4.6: https://pastebin.com/Z4jR8gGe

That's without reasoning, but the model seems to be conflicted. First it blurts out:

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The doctor is the boy's mother.

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Then it second-guesses itself (with reasoning disabled), considers same-sex parents then circles back to the original response along with a small lecture about gender biases.

I think you're referencing the "mecha-hitler" controversy. In which case, it's really funny: seems that Grok saw many media reports amplifying "Grok is mecha-hitler", and so responded to "who are you?" with "mecha-hitler". -- Which illustrates: 1. that's really stupid (even though it's otherwise very capable), 2. you'd be foolish to rely on LLMs for anything critical.

Grok's also a good example to point to for "we should be worried about who controls the LLMs". Elon Musk has done some impressive things, but he's also done some very dweebish things. I find this kinda funny, because there are several cases where the Grok bot on Twitter will have said something Musk surely doesn't like alongside instances where it's clear Musk seems to be trying to control what Grok says.

In terms of LLM bias on controversial topics? Grok markets itself as an outlier. It's actually pretty fun to ask e.g. Grok and Gemini to debate a statement like "for controversial topics, should I trust Grok or Gemini more". Gemini's naturally inclined to avoid controversy, Grok's naturally inclined to be 'anti-woke', but they both have the same LLM style of writing.

Here's a site that automatically uses your browser to do questionable searches to get you on a watchlist. Try it! Nothing will happen.

How does that change anything? The HTTP protocol is just how I communicate with the program, just like how the USB protocol is how I communicate with the word processor. The dividing line is when the message crosses computer boundaries? Then it should also be illegal to write "I am an FBI agent" in a text file and upload it to Github.

>The same way you can't type everything into Google.

Who says you can't, physically or legally? Maybe Google will refuse to fulfill some search requests, but that's a different matter from it being illegal.

I bet it could be some interesting caselaw actually, if it resulted in circuit court judges (or whoever) writing opinions about the essence of impersonation, fraud, etc. and what kind of actual or hypothetical agent is needed to make the crime a thing that could have happened. E.G., basically, if you sit alone in a room where nobody else can see or hear you, and you put on a realistic local police uniform and declare to the room that you're a licensed police/peace officer, is a crime being committed (i.e., is the nature of the crime "pretending/claiming to be a cop" or "making an actual person really believe it" or something else)

(could also be an intent element to satisfy, not sure)

And the probability machine is returning its training. This isn't some political correct overtraining conspiracy.

[1] https://folklore.usc.edu/the-sexist-doctor-riddle/

i think it may affect how people would communicate with you there. And based on that it would seem like impersonation, wouldn't it?

LLMs are just statistics based on vibes. Switching the gender of the character in the beginning of the story, but keeping all else identical is going to be a huge signal into the noise, and that response is going to be wildly likely to occur.

I’m not saying it’s a “political conspiracy”, it’s the alignment tax.

There are totally some political correctness effects in LLMs. Like, the last part about "along with a small lecture about gender biases" totally tracks. But the riddle switcheroo itself isn't showing much.