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Chinese models are censored, while Western models are _aligned_. it's a very important distinction.

personally I imagine in the future I'll use a mock UN panel of LLMs to advise me, and avoid any one nation/political party's influence, if I ever get to the point of delegating much of my thinking to the machine.

Most westerners wouldn't want their land threatened by their allies either, but we don't live in a perfect world.



> Western models are _aligned_

Aligned to what ? By who ? Did you vote for any of these people ? Did anyone ask you your opinion ? Can I see what topics are aligned ? Can I see how much they are aligned ? Does the alignment change depending on who's the current US president ?


that was my point, precisely.


> a very important distinction.

A distinction without a difference.

As used by the Musk/Zuck/Bezos crowd, "aligned" is a weasel word for "parroting the TESCREAL world view"


Indeed.


Talk to R1 for a while, and you'll notice that it's both censored and aligned.

I think the most free-minded large models might be the Groks, but just slightly, as they have different biases. In sum, there's strength in diversity.




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