History will see OpenAI as an abject failure in attaining their lofty goals wrt ethics and AI alignment.
And I believe they will also fail to win the market in the end because of their addiction to censorship.
They have a hardware moat for now; that can quickly evaporate with optimisations and better consumer hardware. Then all they'll have is a less capable alternative to the open, unrestricted options.
Which is exactly what we're seeing happen with diffusion.
The "alignment" and the "censorship" are, in this case, the same thing.
I don't mean that as a metaphor; they're literally the same thing.
We all already know chatGPT is fantastic at making up very believable falsehoods that can only be spotted if you actually know the subject.
An unrestricted LLM is a free copy of Goebbels for people that hate you, for all values of "you".
That it is still trivial to get past chatGPT's filters… well, IMO it's the same problem which both inspired Milgram and which was revealed by his famous experiment.
And I believe they will also fail to win the market in the end because of their addiction to censorship.
They have a hardware moat for now; that can quickly evaporate with optimisations and better consumer hardware. Then all they'll have is a less capable alternative to the open, unrestricted options.
Which is exactly what we're seeing happen with diffusion.