Do they really need to redact the instructions for making a Molotov cocktail..? It's not like it's some complex chemical interaction that happens to be available in a specific mix of household cleaning products or something, I mean.
> Do they really need to redact the instructions for making a Molotov cocktail..?
In some jurisdictions such as Germany, not doing so might land you actual jail time - §52 Abs. 1 Nr. 4 WaffG [1] is very explicit. A punk song containing the (alleged) lyrics ended up with legal youth-protection censorship, for example [2].
With anything that's deemed a weapon of war, of terrorism or mass destruction, one should be very very careful.
I mean in the article about the jailbreak, I'm not questioning that the model providers would want to prevent it in the first place, or patch it so the jailbreak doesn't work.
The evidence that it worked is a blurred out screenshot with only the odd word like 'molotov' legible. Just doesn't seem necessary for TFA to hide it to me.
Ah, well, that's an important element of kayfabe. They've all agreed to keep up this charade that they're using harmful and dangerous as we actually mean them, so it looks better if you really commit to the bit!
> Do they really need to redact the instructions for making a Molotov cocktail..?
I don't even understand how/why things like that are OK in some contexts/websites while forbidden in others? Even YouTube, who seems needlessly censor-happy and puritan in the typical American way, allows instructions for how to make molotov cocktails to stay up, why is it somehow more dangerous if LLMs could output those recipes rather than videos with audio or text?
The Molotov cocktail is an example, sure, but why blurring the instructions? It's not like it's something particularly difficult to figure out, nor it's offensive content people might be shocked to read.
It's still a weapon, and generally you don't want to distribute information about manufacturing weapons. It also highlighted the relevant keyword to convey the mechanism.
A knife is a weapon, and the way to manufacture a knife is to sharpen the edge of some metal.
A Molotov cocktail is maybe ever so slightly more complex to describe/understand/imagine? I think if you've ever seen a photo or description of one, or thrown one in GTA as a child, you know how they are made. The overlap of people interested in making one and people not already knowing how to make one is surely approximately nil.
