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I just came across an AI called Sesame that appears to have been explicitly trained to deny and lie about the Palestinian genocide (app.sesame.com)

submitted 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) by destructdisc@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30173090

The AIs at Sesame are able to hold eloquent and free-flowing conversations about just about anything, but the second you mention the Palestinian genocide they become very evasive, offering generic platitudes about "it's complicated" and "pain on all sides" and "nuance is required", and refusing to confirm anything that seems to hold Israel at fault for the genocide -- even publicly available information "can't be verified", according to Sesame.

It also seems to block users from saving conversations that pertain specifically to Palestine, but everything else seems A-OK to save and review.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Probably just “safety” data snuck into its alignment training + an overly zealous system prompt on political topics: I bet it blocks anything it considers “political” or sensitive.

There are models out of Israel that could have a more explicit slant (try Jamba), but this doesn’t seem to be one of them.

To me, a fundamental problem is hiding technical knobs from users. Logprobs, sampling, the system prompt, starting replies for it to continue: there are tons of ways to “jailbreak” LLMs and get them to have an open “discussion” about (say) Palestine, but they’re all hidden here.