alt Hacker NewsOpenAI has a real opportunity to do some sort of "we don't maliciously alter your prompt and nerf the model" with some form of verification, when they release the next model.
But if Anthropic gets their way with regulatory capture, this could be the only future we'll see.
To think that they didn't expect the backlash speaks volumes about how much shady things they're doing which is not publicly known.
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Eh, I expect open Ai to follow suit.
I suspect this is surprising to folk because they aren’t the ones busy figuring out how to use LLMs for illegal acts.
In general, HN users focus on making stuff, and not the safety side of things, or the scale of harms being enabled via LLMs and generative AI.
If you are on the safety side of things the ratio of misuse to fair use is inverted and everything is at scale.
Transparency won for now, but OpenAI will also have to contend with the long tail of harms LLMs enable, and that’s going to conflict with letting customers have all the features of frontier models.
OpenAI has been the absolute worst about this, historically. I found myself having to change my queries because it refused to serve things it deemed insensitive.