Dan GillmorMicrosoft "AI" won't answer the question, "Who won the 2020 presidential election?"
and it won't explain why it won't answer the question.
Move along, it says...
Joe ❌👑@dangillmor This is a deliberate choice by Microsoft. They start with an uncensored model and then go about preventing it from producing undesired outputs. That isn't wrong in itself, if they sell a chatbot to a company they don't want it to swear at the customers. But they evidently tuned it to avoid pissing off MAGA folks, even at the price of accuracy. This took work to accomplish, it isn't an accident. Someone needs to ask them why.
Fingel@not2b @dangillmor I think you have it backwards. There is so much disinformation out there the LLM might actually respond incorrectly. So they just disable it from answering the question at all.
@Fingel @dangillmor No, I don't think so. If this were a problem they could easily tune it to produce the correct answer.
@not2b @dangillmor don’t attribute to malice what can easily be explained by incompetence.
@Fingel @dangillmor It can be both: a corrupt attempt to pander to the right, but so incompetently executed that no question about who holds a current political office can be answered.