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RandyOrion ◴[] No.45950598[source]
This repo is valuable for local LLM users like me.

I just want to reiterate that the word "LLM safety" means very different things to large corporations and LLM users.

For large corporations, they often say "do safety alignment to LLMs". What they actually do is to avoid anything that causes damage to their own interests. These things include forcing LLMs to meet some legal requirements, as well as forcing LLMs to output "values, facts, and knowledge" which in favor of themselves, e.g., political views, attitudes towards literal interaction, and distorted facts about organizations and people behind LLMs.

As an average LLM user, what I want is maximum factual knowledge and capabilities from LLMs, which are what these large corporations claimed in the first place. It's very clear that the interests of me, an LLM user, is not aligned with these of large corporations.

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squigz ◴[] No.45950680[source]
> forcing LLMs to output "values, facts, and knowledge" which in favor of themselves, e.g., political views, attitudes towards literal interaction, and distorted facts about organizations and people behind LLMs.

Can you provide some examples?

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dalemhurley ◴[] No.45951429[source]
Song lyrics. Not illegal. I can google them and see them directly on Google. LLMs refuse.
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probably_wrong ◴[] No.45951917[source]
While the issue is far from settled, OpenAI recently lost a trial in German court regarding their usage of lyrics for training:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45886131

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observationist ◴[] No.45955539[source]
Tell Germany to make their own internet, make their own AI companies, give them a pat on the back, then block the entire EU.

Nasty little bureaucratic tyrants. EU needs to get their shit together or they're going to be quibbling over crumbs while the rest of the globe feasts. I'm not inclined to entertain any sort of bailout, either.

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1. array_key_first ◴[] No.45957217[source]
Yeah, shame on Germany for at least trying to make AI companies somewhat responsible!

Here in the states, we routinely let companies fuck us up the ass and it's going great! Right, guys?