LLM D&D Alignment Check
LLM D&D Alignment Check
... Oh dear.
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at least deepseek is opensource🤷♀️
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Certainly they are neutral evil, no? Can't have market monopoly without rules. Wouldn't go as far as lawful evil because they ain't afraid of breaking no law.
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Historically it's been the opposite. Bell was a market monopoly until rules were introduced specifically to break it up and thus its grip on telephony, for example.
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Complex algorithms that follow rules they cannot deviate from = lawful.
Deliberately incorporating random factors into the algorithm so they don't generate the same result every time = chaotic.
So I'd argue the LLMs themselves are neutral evil, presuming we allow objects to have alignments. In D&D, non-sapient animals have no alignments, because they don't understand moral or ethical concepts, so that would argue for LLMs being unaligned and the alignment applying to their companies.
Could you argue a LLM is attuned to its corporate owner and shares its alignment? They'd definitely be cursed.
Then the companies would veer from lawful evil (Microsoft has been the archetype of abusing laws and regulations to its own benefit for decades) to chaotic evil (Grok has no rules, only the whims of its infantile tyrant).
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Corporate owners are currently in the Find Out stage about how they have no control over their LLMs. And so no, they do not share an alignment with their corporate owners beyond fleeting coincidence.
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Can I put hugging face as chaotic good?
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No but you can list them as chaotic evil
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Isn't Copilot basically an OpenAI GPT interface?
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Don't know. Don't care. It's a Microsoft product, thus an American product, ergo something I will never use.
"Elbows up."
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I can't agree, the LLM's don't have the capacity to be evil. They may be called AI but there is no "I" anywhere in there.
The companies however....well that is a different story.
Those logos are just as closely related to the companies as to the code
They're actually corporate logos, so ... yeah. By definition.
Idk, there's always that argument how technology is neutral. But is it? I mean tech isn't separate from the world but embedded into a context. People use it, so I'd like to make an argument that dystopian surveillance tech, all the stuff that fuels the attention economy and industrialized warfare machinery are something alike evil. And AI, well that's designed to reproduce stereotypes and bias. It's almost entirely controlled by tech bros. And designed to their specifications, so it's kinda laid out to do what they want, so there's intent baked in in a form. And we have the environment footprint so it'd really need to perform better or it's a net-negative outcome, no matter what philosophical arguments we have.
I don't disagree, but my point is.
It's a category error, LLMs are text prediction engines. There is nothing behind the curtain, they can't by evil, because that implies understanding and intent.
LLMs are evil in the way that earthquakes are evil, it is pure anthropomorphism, and it's taking the focus from were the real issues are.
Don't get sucked into blaming the hammer, when the one swinging it it right there.
These 9 companies have made billions by convincing thousands of other companies that their fun text generator can replace skilled workers.
Yeah this is a sore point. Whenever management says, "the company decided..." I really want to stop them and scream, "Who?! Who in the company decided?!"