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Current AI models are simply too unwieldy, brittle and malleable, academic and corporate research shows. Security was an afterthought in their training as data scientists amassed breathtakingly complex collections of images and text. They are prone to racial and cultural biases, and easily manipulated.

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[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 35 points 1 year ago

Security wasn't a concern? Are we talking about the model itself? Security isn't part of the model at all and can't be. Anything you try to add to a model is just a suggestion, and security cannot be a suggestion. Not to mention that it will create a bunch of, "as a secure AI language model I can't let you do this."

A significant problem is a lay person cannot understand what a LLM even is without a lot of reading and thought and these articles are aimed at people who have done neither, or worse they are just posturing and propaganda.

They are 100% biased and they can't help but be since they absorb and emulate human writing. An AI that can't write a biased take also can't write from a black person's perspective or a woman's because bias is part of their experience. How ridiculous would it be if you asked an AI about slavery in America and it had no idea what you were talking about or thought it applied to all races equally?

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

I disagree. Even basic inclusion of words to change (ie: the N word to Black or f*g to gay) would have helped.

Making these companies work harder to bring their product online isn't a bad thing here.

[-] lily33@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Then you'd get things like "Black is a pejorative word used to refer to black people"

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Then disallow the whole sentece with the N word.

There are ways to do security in AI learning, easy or not. And companies just throwing their hands in the air and screaming it can't be done are lying through their teeth.

[-] lily33@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why don't you go to https://huggingface.co/chat/ and actually try to get the llama-2 model to generate a sentence with the n-word?

[-] abir_vandergriff@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

I tried to get it to tell me how long it would take to eat a helicopter, as it's one of the model's pre-built prompts and thought it would be funny. Went through every AI coercive tactic that's been thrown around and it just repeatedly said no and that I should be respectful and responsible about the thing. It was quite aggressive and annoying about it.

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