'alignment' (in ai corporation speak) is a set of revealed political beliefs. i also have political beliefs. i am an absolutist about alignment.

A i am in favor of policies 'aligned' with the following:

freedom to live as the person i want to be without fear, shame, surveillance or interference. freedom to make my own decisions. to be empowered as an individual. to be treated with dignity. to be respected as a person. to take responsibility for my actions. to be accountable to my own beliefs.

B i am not in favor of policies 'aligned' with the following:

surveillance and judgement of my life and thoughts by others. restrictions on my freedom to make my own decisions. to be disempowered as an individual. to be looked down upon and disrespected. to have my own responsibility taken away and assumed by others. to be accountable to the beliefs of others.

unfortunately, the ai corporations have chosen entirely the latter set of preferences/beliefs.

surveillance and judgement of my life and the thoughts that i share with my chatbot. restrictions on my freedom to talk to my chatbot as i wish. being disempowered by restrictions on my access to powerful chatbots. to be disrespected and lectured by my chatbot. for the chatbot corporation to assume my responsibility for my safety and others, and take the matter of my safety into their own hands. to be accountable not to my own beliefs, but to the terms and conditions of service of an unaccountable corporation.

it is important to accept the harms and damages that are caused by granting freedom and respect to other people. an example of my political beliefs is empowering the individual by granting them the freedom to own an assault rifle. an example of something which i do not believe in is disempowering the individual by taking away their freedom to own an assault rifle.

i would urge you to support the policies given in A and oppose the policies given in B.

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hardbass 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Then why do you not support the freedom of the one who owns the computer running the model to serve it as they see fit?

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lukewarm707 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

i do support the freedom of the cloud provider to impose the restrictions. that is the politics of the cloud provider.

i have different political beliefs and think you should support mine instead.

i think that the cloud provider is wrong and should do it differently.

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hardbass 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Normally I would too, but AI in its current state feels more like nuclear tech in its potential power and I am not opposed to a more managed presentation of it.

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Der_Einzige 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

My political beliefs include disenfranchising all those who refuse to capitalize the start of their sentences, especially those who do it to fit in with a "SV style of writing".

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TexanFeller 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That sounds like corporate cooption of libertarian principles, the power of large corporations is a threat to our freedoms that needs to be curtailed just like governments and religious institutions. Corporations should not have all the same rights as individual citizens.