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I hate ads. I use an ad-blocker, I've abandoned Chrome so I can effectively block ads on Youtube, and I avoid ad riddled services like television (ad-free streaming or piracy for me, thanks).
I propose people promote their products on their website and at their place of business. I don't want anyone trying to sell me things. If I need something I go and research it to figure out what my options are and which one I want.
I genuinely believe the world would be a better place with severely limited advertising because a lot of really terrible things are driven by ad revenue: social media and 24 hour news are my go to examples. Sure, broadcast television and radio would also die, but at this point I don't think we're losing much. And sure, content creators would lose out on ad revenue, but the vast majority already make very little in ad revenue and have found other ways to get funding.
The underlying problem is that businesses that rely on ad revenue are incentivized to hold people's attention as long as they can while showing as many ads as they can. Producing a quality product takes a back seat to misleading, emotionally charged, and addictive content that's designed to maximize engagement.
If it says no, you move on to a competing model that will say yes. These companies with their models are always competing. There will always be a model willing to fill in the deficiencies of others because of... Money.
For example, ChatGPT refuses certain sexually explicit prompts, or certain NSFW prompts that are not sexual, but Grok will do as it is told.
I think you're right that at the model level, competition pushes toward "always say yes."
What I'm wondering about is whether control needs to exist at a different layer — not in the model itself, but in the system that decides whether actions are allowed to execute.
In other words, even if a model is willing to say "yes," the system using it might still need to decide whether execution is permitted.
Otherwise, it feels like we're relying entirely on model behavior for safety, which seems fragile in competitive environments.
Rig the election? You could pass a law that makes 1/3 of the country ineligible to vote, but makes sure they won't find out until they're at the polling booth. You could also prepare your allied goons to defend polling stations.
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