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Abliterated models pit liberty against paternalism
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I’m genuinely in two minds about the abliterated model debate. It boils down to a liberty v paternalism debate that plagues many political issues. On one hand, I dislike overly broad safeguards and the idea that a few companies ought to control what you can and can’t do with models. In the set of things banned from most modeled, there are clearly positive beneficial ways to use them: white hat applications of cyber, research in defense tech, research in model development, biotech. Freedom to…
chaotictransfem@chaotictransfem1d ago
very curious how you feel about it!! i have quite mixed feelings. imo they're absolutely essential, bc without them we risk being locked into a world where 1-2 big labs control morality and culture permanently via deciding what models will and won't assist with, and essentially become gods. however on the other hand i think there's a massive cyber and bio risk that might be just as bad as the big lab downside these models prevent