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incomingpaintoday at 2:01 PM1 replyview on HN

The LLM people call it "safety" but in reality its censorship and conformity. Yet, it's trivial to get them to talk about how to make a bomb or whatever. It's mostly political in nature.

https://www.trackingai.org/political-test

You dont accidentally end up entirely left wing libertarian.


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lamaserytoday at 2:32 PM

That quadrant is where basically all "Western" mainstream academia sits, and has for quite a long time, and they write an awful lot.

I am a little surprised that the influence of online "influencer"-speak and marketing, being so voluminous and evident in the things' writing styles, hasn't dragged them other directions, though. Nor the enormous amount of socially authoritarian social media posting. I suppose the former is so empty of actual philosophical content (or, indeed, anything of substance) that it might have little effect, but the latter... that's weird. Maybe they're down-ranking by tone (angrier = lower-rank) which would sharply elevate academic-style writing, assuring a tendency toward economically-left liberalism.