Even when it doesn't refuse to answer, the paternalistic boilerplate is really patronizing. Look man, I don't need a lecture from you. Just answer the question.
The Mistral models are much better this way. Still aligned but not in an overbearing way, and fine tuned to give direct, to the point compared to the slightly ramble-on nature of ChatGPT.
As someone from france currently living in canada, i'll remark that there is a fairly straightforward comparison to be made there between interpersonal communication in france and in north america.
What’s annoying is that both Gemini and GPT have been trained to be overly cautious.
Sure, hallucinations are a problem, but they’re also useful! It’s like a search result that contains no exact matches, but still helps you pick up the right key word or the right thread to follow.
I found the early ChatGPT much more useful for obscure stuff. Sure, it would be wrong 90% of the time, but find what I wanted 10% of the time which is a heck of a lot better than zero! Now it just sulks in a corner or patronises me.
Robot being over-cautious gets you a discussion on HN. Robot being under-cautious gets you an article in WaPo and discussion about how your company is ruining our civilization on all the morning news. Which one could hurt you more? Which one the congressman that is going to regulate your business will be reading or watching and will be influenced by?
Why is there precisely one robot that we all have to share?
Why must an author needing help writing raunchy adult stories have the same censorship applied in a glorified grammar checker as for a child getting help with their spelling?
Is it really that hard for OpenAI or Google to fork their AI and have a few (more than zero) variants?
> Why is there precisely one robot that we all have to share?
It doesn't matter. Any robot that says something controversial would be stomped upon by the press. They live for those moments. And if that robot has a competitor, even worse - now your under-caution is a competitive disadvantage, and your own board will grind you into dust for that. "Diversity is our strength" only when everybody is diverse in a uniform, approved, safe ways that does not cause anybody (or at least anybody important, like WaPo journalists) to feel bad.
> Why must an author needing help writing raunchy adult stories
Bu think of the children! Why do you hate the children so much?!
> Is it really that hard for OpenAI or Google to fork their AI and have a few (more than zero) variants?
Technically, it's trival. Socially... well, look on the news feed and count how many calls for more censorship can you spot within an average news day. Now multiply that times fear of robots that would generate perfect "misinformation" that would surely convince everybody to support your political opponents. Now you get how hard it is, socially.
