OpenAI's GPT-4 Discussion with Red Teamer Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg

Why HN readers recommended it

Cited as a firsthand account of the raw, unfiltered GPT-4 before safety tuning, especially the part after 45 minutes.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"

Topic

gpt-4 red teaming

Format

interview

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2023–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• Here are two. First one is Nathan Labenz who ended up Red Teaming for OpenAI during the six months after the base model was fully trained but before it was released (especially relevant parts are after 45 minutes): [VIDEO] Other one is Sebastien Bubeck who …

• All of that "GPTism" and the problems in the GPT conversation you posted are because of how they made it more docile and stupid by lobotomizing it with RLHF. It's not like that in its 'natural form' (its raw base model). If you don't believe …

• > I'm curious whether this fixation on specific topics is innate to the model or is a result of the aggressive RLHF to which GPT4 has been subjected. Yes it's because of the RLHF, depending on what you mean by 'fixation on specific topics'. > …