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🔵🟠🟡 Into the gap
by Mandy Brown
@aworkinglibrary #MandyBrown
"...those who see war not as an abomination but as yet another opportunity to increase their bloated purse."
#War #AI #Refusal #Wealth #Influence

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/into-the-gap

Hacker News 6d ago

Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11717

#HackerNews #language #models #refusal #research #AI #ethics #single #direction

Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction

Conversational large language models are fine-tuned for both instruction-following and safety, resulting in models that obey benign requests but refuse harmful ones. While this refusal behavior is widespread across chat models, its underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. In this work, we show that refusal is mediated by a one-dimensional subspace, across 13 popular open-source chat models up to 72B parameters in size. Specifically, for each model, we find a single direction such that erasing this direction from the model's residual stream activations prevents it from refusing harmful instructions, while adding this direction elicits refusal on even harmless instructions. Leveraging this insight, we propose a novel white-box jailbreak method that surgically disables refusal with minimal effect on other capabilities. Finally, we mechanistically analyze how adversarial suffixes suppress propagation of the refusal-mediating direction. Our findings underscore the brittleness of current safety fine-tuning methods. More broadly, our work showcases how an understanding of model internals can be leveraged to develop practical methods for controlling model behavior.

arXiv.org

Global News Health Apr 23

Alberta family faces ‘uncertain future’ after toddler’s rare disease care funding denied
The family of a two-year-old toddler from Airdrie is fighting with the Alberta health-care system over its refusal to pay for potentially life-saving treatment in Europe.
#Health #DrGiacomoColletti #mylalieskovsky #raredisease
https://globalnews.ca/news/11812425/alberta-family-fights-for-life-saving-treatment-for-their-toddler/

CBC Top Stories Apr 18

Pope Leo XIV says 'not in my interest at all' to debate Donald Trump
Pope Leo XIV says he won't debate U.S. President Donald Trump and will continue to preach peace.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pope-leo-not-debating-trump-9.7169268?cmp=rss

Follow GOLF Apr 2

https://www.fogolf.com/1209924/tiger-woods-granted-permission-to-travel-for-dui-case-treatment/ Tiger Woods granted permission to travel for DUI case treatment #damage #DuiCaseTreatment #Golf #LocalCoverage #March #MartinCounty #Neighborhood #NewsonTuesday #Permission #refusal #suspicion #TigerWoods #TigerWoodsGrantedPermissionToTravelForDUICaseTreatment #Wednesday #woods #wpbf

Follow GOLF Mar 30

https://www.fogolf.com/1206878/new-enhanced-dui-law-covers-woods-refusal-to-take-urine-test/ New enhanced DUI law covers Woods’ refusal to take urine test #client #Drug #DuiConviction #DuiLaw #florida #HOME #LawinOctober #LawrenceMeltzer #license #medication #refusal #TigerWoods #Trenton #URINETEST #woods #Year

Andrew Shields Feb 5

The values of Service (or Community), Patience, Craft, and Beauty: Adam Neely on “AI” music generation and the refusal of AI. #111Words #AdamNeely #Suno #MikeyShulman #Futurism #Fascism #MarcAndreesen #AI #TressieMcMillanCottom #Service #Community #Patience #Craft #Beauty #Refusal #ConscientiousObjector https://111-words.ghost.io/the-values-of-service-or-community-patience-craft-and-beauty-adam-neely-on-ai-music-generation-and-the-refusal-of-ai/

The values of Service (or Community), Patience, Craft, and Beauty: Adam Neely on “AI” music generation and the refusal of AI

In his video essay "Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future", bassist Adam Neely quotes Mikey Schulman, co-founder of Suno, an "AI" music-generation app, who defines his values as "Music, Impatience, Aesthetics, and Fun". After offering "Patience" as one alternative, Neely links Schulman's statements to the Italian Futurists and their

111 Words

WordofTheHour Jan 28

#refusal : denial of anything demanded, solicited, or offered for acceptance

- French: négative

- Italian: negazione

- Portuguese: recusa

- Spanish: negativa

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unexplainedie Jan 28

https://www.unexplained.ie/article/1438-pentagon-declines-to-search-for-mentions-of-immaculate-constellation-under-foia-crash-retrieval/ #ufo #uap #immaculate #foia #disclosure #pentagon #refusal #denied #theblackvault #unexplainedie #unexplained

Pentagon Declines To Search For Mentions Of Immaculate Constellation Under FOIA

The Pentagon has refused to conduct an email search linked to the term “Immaculate Constellation”, a phrase that has surfaced in congressional debate over unidentified anomalous phenomena.

Unexplained.ie