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So, garbage in; garbage out?

> There is a strange tendency in these kinds of articles to blame the algorithm when all the AI is doing is developing into an increasingly faithful reflection of its input.

When hasn't garbage been a problem? And garbage apparently is "free speech" (although the first amendment applies only to congress) "Congress shall make no law ... "






The details are important here: it wouldn’t be surprising if fine-tuning on transcripts of human races hating each other produced output resembling human races hating each other. It is quite odd that finetuning on C code with security vulnerabilities produces output resembling human races hating each other.

I don't think it's that surprising.

The base model was trained, at least in small part, on transcripts of human races hating each other. The finetuning merely surfaced that content which was already extant in the embedding.

ie - garbage in, garbage out.


The first amendment applies to every government entity in the US. Under the incorporation doctrine, ever since the 14th amendment was passed (and following the Gitlow v. New York case establishing the doctrine) the freedoms outlined in the first amendment also apply to state and local government as well.

True, however I suspect parent poster's main intent was to distinguish governmental versus private, as opposed to units within the federal government.



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