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giancarlostoro ◴[] No.40669810[source]
I've got friends who tried to use ChatGPT to generate regex to capture racial slurs to moderate them (perfectly valid request since they're trying to stop trolls from saying awful things). It vehemently refused to do so, probably due to overtly strict "I'll never say the nword, you can't fool me" rules that were shoved into ChatGPT. Look, if your AI can't be intelligent about sensible requests, I'm going to say it. It's not intelligent, it's really useless (at least regarding that task, and related valid tasks).

Who cares if someone can get AI to say awful things? I can write software that spits out slurs without the help of AI. Heck, I could write awful things here on HN, is AI going to stop me? Doubt it, nobody wants to foot the bill for AI moderation, it can only get so much.

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1. rldjbpin ◴[] No.40676828[source]
> if your AI can't be intelligent about sensible requests, I'm going to say it. It's not intelligent, it's really useless

it is a complex autocomplete at the end of the day. all these guardrails are implemented as a byproduct of the sentient marketing.

ironically the systems that implement the censorships partially use regex to analyze the user prompt.