One part of that is about preventing it from producing "illegal" output, there example being the production of nitroglycerine which is decidedly not illegal to make in the US generally (particularly if not using it as an explosive, though usually unwise) and possible to accidentally make when otherwise performing nitration (which is in general dangerous)-- so pretty pointless to outlaw at a small scale in any case. It's certainly not illegal to learn about. (And generally of only minimal risk to the public, since anyone making it in any quantity is more likely to blow themselves up than anything else).
Today learning about is as simple as picking up a book or doing an internet search-- https://www.google.com/search?q=how+do+you+make+nitroglyceri.... But in OpenAI's world you just get detected by the censorship and told no. At least they've cut back on the offensive fingerwagging.
As LLM systems replace search I fear that we're moving in a dark direction where the narrow-minded morality and child-like understanding of the law of a small number of office workers who have never even picked up a screw driver or test-tube and made something physical (and the fine-tuning sweatshops they direct) classify everything they don't personally understand as too dangerous to even learn about.
One company hobbling their product wouldn't be a big deal, but they're pushing for government controls to prevent competition and even if they miss these efforts may stick everyone else with similar hobbling.
One part of that is about preventing it from producing "illegal" output, there example being the production of nitroglycerine which is decidedly not illegal to make in the US generally (particularly if not using it as an explosive, though usually unwise) and possible to accidentally make when otherwise performing nitration (which is in general dangerous)-- so pretty pointless to outlaw at a small scale in any case. It's certainly not illegal to learn about. (And generally of only minimal risk to the public, since anyone making it in any quantity is more likely to blow themselves up than anything else).
Today learning about is as simple as picking up a book or doing an internet search-- https://www.google.com/search?q=how+do+you+make+nitroglyceri.... But in OpenAI's world you just get detected by the censorship and told no. At least they've cut back on the offensive fingerwagging.
As LLM systems replace search I fear that we're moving in a dark direction where the narrow-minded morality and child-like understanding of the law of a small number of office workers who have never even picked up a screw driver or test-tube and made something physical (and the fine-tuning sweatshops they direct) classify everything they don't personally understand as too dangerous to even learn about.
One company hobbling their product wouldn't be a big deal, but they're pushing for government controls to prevent competition and even if they miss these efforts may stick everyone else with similar hobbling.