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Evangelical Leaders Announce J.K. Rowling Finally Bigoted Enough That It’s Okay For Kids To Read About Witchcraft by Sirhan Sirhan (The Onion)
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO—Following a series of transphobic comments by the Harry Potter author, the nation’s top evangelical leaders announced Monday that J.K. Rowling had finally become bigoted enough to make it okay for kids to read about witchcraft. “While I always appreciated Ms. Rowling making the greedy banker…
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Untitled Goose Name (@goosname@sfba.social) (SFBA.social)
Did the NYT really publish an Opinion speculating that young girls today are more depressed than ever because of _phones_?

In a world where they lost the right to control their own reproductive healthcare? Where states are pondering making them report their periods? In a world debating genital inspections to play school sports? While banning books? Where they practice school shooting drills? With climate change? Where sexual assault isn’t disqualifying for public office?

Sure, it’s the phones.
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Bing Chat is blatantly, aggressively misaligned (lesswrong.com)
Comment by gwern - I've been thinking how Sydney can be so different from ChatGPT, and how RLHF
could have resulted in such a different outcome, and here is a hypothesis no one
seems to have brought up: "Bing Sydney is not a RLHF trained GPT-3 model at all!
but a GPT-4 model developed in a hurry which has been finetuned on some sample
dialogues and possibly some pre-existing dialogue datasets or instruction-tuning
[https://gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/transformer/gpt/instruction-tuning/index], and this
plus the wild card of being able to inject random novel web searches into the
prompt are why it acts like it does". This seems like it parsimoniously explains
everything thus far.

So, some background:

1. The relationship between OA/MS is close but far from completely cooperative,
similar to how DeepMind won't share
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34804446] anything with Google Brain.
Both parties are sophisticated and understand that they are allies - for
now... They share as little as possible. When MS plugs in OA stuff to its
services, it doesn't appear to be calling the OA API but running it itself.
(That would be dangerous and complex from an infrastructure point of view,
anyway.) MS 'licensed
[https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/new-azure-openai-service/]
the GPT-3 source code
[https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/09/22/microsoft-teams-up-with-openai-to-exclusively-license-gpt-3-language-model/]'
for Azure use but AFAIK they did not get the all-important checkpoints or
datasets (cf. their investments in ZeRO). So, what is Bing Sydney? It will
not simply be unlimited access to the ChatGPT checkpoints, training
datasets, or debugged RLHF code. It will be something much more limited,
perhaps just a checkpoint.

2. This is not ChatGPT. MS has explicitly stated it is more powerful than
ChatGPT, but refused to say anything more straightforward like "it's a more
trained GPT-3" etc. If it's not a ChatGPT, then
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GrayGooGirl 🏳️‍🌈 (@graygoogirl@mastodon.social) (Mastodon)
Watching Twitter fail into nothingness is like watching an old friend slowly lose their mental capacites. It hurts, this friend had some problems, but they helped spread the word about artists, independent journalists, mom and pop shops... Now they just sit in their recliner in the dark, wondering why their friends don't call anymore.