Perhaps for some use-cases, the value of the data degrades at a rate proportional to its persistence layer, and doing a re-migration is not useful.

Prompt for PetitGPT research-v1: "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"

Response: "A woodchuck would chuck wood if it could chuck it. The woodchuck's chucking action is a form of "chucking" or "chucking in" which is a behavior that allows it to extract nutrients from wood. The woodchuck's chucking action is a form of "chucking" because it is a form of "chucking" that allows the woodchuck to extract nutrients from wood."

I chuckled.

The author did not call it an evil force, did they? The author seemed more nuanced in what they were saying...

> "I don’t know what this relationship will ultimately mean for us, and I don’t think anyone else does either. That uncertainty is precisely why our eagerness to normalize it bothers me."

The breaking API changes are frustrating, especially the one that removes forced tool use.

Sounds fine to me! Less inane, pointless, content? Only left with what people chose to exist? Sign me up!

Everything above 127 would be extended ASCII instead of strict ASCII, if that matters.

There are multiple extensions to ASCII. "Extended ASCII" isn't a single thing, but a category of single-byte character encodings which are supersets of ASCII.

The context of what the nation was facing in the 1860's (the civil war) and 1940's (world war 2) were very materially different than what it faces now.

It is cliche, but I haven't had good luck with having Chinese models openly discuss historical topics like Tienanmen Square. The US models don't seem to have a problem discussing history, even if it points an unglamorous light on the US government.

And there's a reason for that: the US government does not compel model trainers to train their models to paint them in a favorable light, while the PRC does.

That sounds awful; it means 3+ times a day a whole plane of a passengers is getting sprayed with this stuff.

Didn't the Loma Prieta earthquake do that?

No it was the Freeway Revolt

I don't know that those timelines make sense; there were highways going through San Francisco... until the Loma Prieta earthquake; and then suddenly not. A cursory look at what Freeway Revolt was, seems to point to a movement in the 1950-1960's, rather than the early 1990's.