Half-baked guardrails FTW @metaai Cc @KatieConradKS @Rahll https://
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Meta AI’s Inadequate Safety Guardrails Criticized
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ChatGPT’s Hallucinations and Narcissism Problem
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It's me, hi
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Output Mimicry vs Process Understanding in AI Systems
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once upon a time, one could have said the same thing (“they mimic us so well, so they are the best model we have”) about photocopiers or video cameras. mimicking output is not the same as mimicking underlying process.
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Chatlighting in LLMs: RLHF’s Role in Obsequious Responses
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Question. Suppose we call the kind of unrepetant boot-licking (“I apologize for the error”) that LLMs often do “chatlighting” (h/t @Dolimac
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Claude generates false information based on conversational context
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Claude doesn’t know that it lies it just says stuff based on conversational context, like when MetaAI claimed to have a child.
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Gary Marcus Five Critical Points for Elon Musk
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sketched here: https://
garymarcus.substack.com/p/dear-elon-mu
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Humans Make Mistakes Too: LLMs vs Human Error Discussion
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“but humans make mistakes, too” is so common a reply, I have written a discussion comparing humans and LLMs:
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Groupthink versus Tulips: AI Market Rationality Questioned
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https://
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Human Cognitive Errors vs LLM Hallucinations Explained
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So many people are confused about the relation between human cognitive errors and LLM hallucinations that I wrote this short explainer: Humans say things that aren't true for many different reasons
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Moral compass revealed through actions taken
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Their actions have made their moral compass clear.