All of this is true but then it's as easy as releasing censored and uncensored versions of the model.
Then it's up to users (or parents, in the case of children) to choose the adequate version for each purpose. Just like there are child-friendly movies and adult-only movies, and no one beyond fringe puritan crusaders would say that the latter should outright not exist.
Well here you still have the same problem, since they're not gonna release an actually uncensored version, that tells you how to do awful things (or indeed, that tells you to do them).
So then you'd have censored and less censored, and it would still be a matter of where to draw those lines.
True, "uncensored" is not the best term for what I meant (as I'm aware that fully uncensored is not a realistic thing to ask from companies).
What I mean is a model for all audiences and an adult model, and the line would be drawn at the law of the country producing it (if it's something that would be legal to publish for a human author at a website, then it should be allowed as an LLM response). So erotica would be fine, while instructions for making a bomb wouldn't.
Companies release uncensored models all the time. They're called "text" models. I just had llama3.2:3b-text-fp16 give me step by step instructions on how to make a pipe bomb.
I think it's easy to released the uncensored version, it's just the censored version that's likely super super hard.
Since this is just giving the model directly, there's no ability to do any filtering as part of inference, so I would imagine you have to assume the worst (intent) on any input coming into it.
There are also some practical constraints, like any kind of erotic content is completely prohibited in some regulations (like India), so if you want to be able to have access to human labeling or deploy the model under these regulations, you do need to comply.
It’ll get easier once the costs of building foundational models go down and human labeling gets automated. Sit tight, models that’d be creative and amazing at generating erotic content are certainly coming.
Then it's up to users (or parents, in the case of children) to choose the adequate version for each purpose. Just like there are child-friendly movies and adult-only movies, and no one beyond fringe puritan crusaders would say that the latter should outright not exist.