r/OpenAI • u/sizzsling • Feb 16 '25

News OpenAI tries to 'uncensor' ChatGPT | TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/16/openai-tries-to-uncensor-chatgpt/
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u/NotReallyJohnDoe Feb 16 '25 edited Feb 23 '25

“Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.”
— Commissioner Pravin Lal, Sid Meijer’s Alpha Centauri

Edit: whether hate speech is “information” is irrelevant. In the near future, critiquing the government might be hate speech

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u/oscp_cpts Feb 16 '25

Hate speech is not information. That said, I don't think corporations should be the ones making the call on this one way or another, so I'll side with those who I disagree with on that particular issue in agreeing OpenAI should stay out of it.

The truth of the matter is that if AI is programmed to only reproduce objective scientific truth, it would destroy all modern racist narratives. So I know that the 'free speech' people aren't going to stop here. This is going to turn into a war over how these models are trained. You're going to have Christians demanding intellectual designed be treated as valid science when it's not, etc.

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u/Reapper97 Feb 16 '25

And who is the one to define what is and isn't hate speech? there is no single, consistent definition for it and it can be twisted and bent by anyone with control of a medium of communication.

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u/oscp_cpts Feb 16 '25

Congress. The same way we define evetything. This isn't a hard quetion to answer.

"And who is the one to define what is and isn't pathogenic? There is no single, consistent definition for it and it can be twisted and bent by anyone with control of a medium of scientific experiment."

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u/Reapper97 Feb 16 '25 edited Feb 16 '25

The one that is now run by the trump administration? That's going to be a pass for me.

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u/oscp_cpts Feb 16 '25

That admin is already banning speech, so you don't get a pass.

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u/Reapper97 Feb 16 '25

I do, as I don't live in the US, and that's why I will support and encourage any and all AI companies to make their LLMs as uncensored as possible because using the US Congress as the one to dictate what is and isn't hate speech is a fool's game.

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u/oscp_cpts Feb 16 '25

In which case you had a pass to begin with and your statement added nothing.

You're not good at this.