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Outside of the clever semi-benign technical aspects of this: this is really quite sickening to think about.

Sure, We will stop our LLM from decoding obfuscated code by… forcing it to “think” about suicide, self-mutilation, and killing people. This is just philosophically unsettling to me.

I don’t know what software industry I wanted to live in. But it’s certainly not this one.



The LLM doesn't "think" about those topics any more than the HN database "thought" about them when you posted your comment

+1.. Can we not get something more like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-photo_blue

Well, the very coarse filters that are tripping on this are before the model even loads the text into VRAM, so hopefully it is less sickening to you to know that it's very likely a "if str.contains(`suicide`) { refuseAndSuggestHotline(); }" is thinking about your message on the CPU instead of a chain of `fuzzyWeightAddMulX` commands on the GPU.

A person still had to think about suicide and self-mutilation to make this anti-LLM script, though.

I'm not sure what the point being made is. No one is forcing anyone to come up with anti-LLM scripts...?

Are you sure?



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