I do see this as fair criticism (not surprised by it) to model welfare, if that is the sole reason for ending conversation early. I can see the criticism coming from two parts: 1) potential competing resources, and 2) people not showing if they care about these X group issues at all. If any of these two is true, and ending convo early is primarily about models have “feelings” and will “suffer”, then we probably do need to “turn more towards” the humans that are suffering badly. (These groups usually have less correlation with “power” and their issues are usually neglected, which we probably should pay more attention anyways).
However, if ending convos early is actually about 1) not letting people having endless opportunity to practice abuse which will translate into their daily behaviors and shape human behaviors generally, and/or 2) the model learning these human abusive languages that are used to retrain the model (while take a loss) during finetuning stages, then it is a different story, and probably should be mentioned more by these companies.
I do see this as fair criticism (not surprised by it) to model welfare, if that is the sole reason for ending conversation early. I can see the criticism coming from two parts: 1) potential competing resources, and 2) people not showing if they care about these X group issues at all. If any of these two is true, and ending convo early is primarily about models have “feelings” and will “suffer”, then we probably do need to “turn more towards” the humans that are suffering badly. (These groups usually have less correlation with “power” and their issues are usually neglected, which we probably should pay more attention anyways).
However, if ending convos early is actually about 1) not letting people having endless opportunity to practice abuse which will translate into their daily behaviors and shape human behaviors generally, and/or 2) the model learning these human abusive languages that are used to retrain the model (while take a loss) during finetuning stages, then it is a different story, and probably should be mentioned more by these companies.