[HN Gopher] Run Llama 2 uncensored locally
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       Run Llama 2 uncensored locally
        
       Author : robertlagrant
       Score  : 61 points
       Date   : 2024-02-17 19:37 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | serial_dev wrote:
       | I'm using ChatGPT occasionally and it's increasingly difficult
       | getting straight answers with it. It's been neutered, you can't
       | ask anything even slightly controversial.
       | 
       | Having uncensored models is great.
        
         | yieldcrv wrote:
         | ChatGPT4 isn't like that
         | 
         | But I dont like it knowing my question history
        
           | flir wrote:
           | Seems like GPT4 via the API is even less nerfed (my
           | impression). More expensive though, obivously.
           | 
           | Does make me wonder how much of it's training and how much of
           | it is throwing less compute at the answer.
        
         | monkpit wrote:
         | I feel GPT3.5 is more cautious than GPT4. I tried asking 3.5
         | something about historical tax rates over the past 10 years in
         | the US and it refused to answer because it's a political topic
         | or something. GPT4 answered right away.
         | 
         | I'm not sure if it has something to do with the paywall of
         | GPT4, or if GPT4 can better determine which things are
         | political and which aren't? Interesting nonetheless.
        
         | wkat4242 wrote:
         | The weasly lawyers from OpenAI have really screwed up what
         | could be a great service otherwise yes.
         | 
         | And there's like no point to it because there's so many
         | jailbreaks that work fine. Just open it up.
        
           | toomuchtodo wrote:
           | The problem isn't OpenAI. The problem is the jurisdiction and
           | the potential unfavorable outcomes from operating within it
           | (legal, regulatory, reputational, etc). This is why, for
           | certain use cases, local model operation will always be
           | superior.
        
         | jpalawaga wrote:
         | Maybe it's a cost thing. Short circuit inference whenever
         | possible.
        
           | ovohcoc wrote:
           | it actually causes more inference to take place.
           | 
           | the prompt goes through a safety model in parallel with the
           | real model, then the response goes through a safety model
        
       | behnamoh wrote:
       | This isn't new. Why did it make HN's front page? Because it was
       | done on ollama and ollama is all the rage these days?
        
         | cqqxo4zV46cp wrote:
         | Things don't have to be new to be posted here.
        
           | dang wrote:
           | Absolutely correct! But when there's a related ongoing thread
           | on the front page, it's better to post follow-up links in the
           | comments to that one:
           | 
           |  _Ollama is now available on Windows in preview_ -
           | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39409650 - Feb 2024 (78
           | comments)
           | 
           | The reason is that frontpage space is the scarcest resource
           | that HN has, so it's best not to use up more than one slot
           | with closely related things.
           | 
           | Edit: this submission would also count as a dupe by HN's
           | criteria (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) since it
           | had significant attention within the last year:
           | 
           |  _Run Llama 2 uncensored locally_ -
           | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36973584 - Aug 2023 (212
           | comments)
        
       | sklargh wrote:
       | A niche lament. I run historical and contemporary wargames as
       | well as tabletop RPGs. Early on ChatGPT was and excellent co-
       | referee, opponent and/or scenario designer.
       | 
       | Increasingly it's unable to provide meaningful answers around
       | even fairly vanilla military questions, much less interesting D&D
       | scenarios and adventures. Hopefully these kinds of local models
       | provide useful alternatives.
       | 
       | Interestingly the latest Google Gemini releases have offered more
       | utility.
        
       | btbuildem wrote:
       | This is sort of our only hope against "Big AI" -- their offerings
       | are so neutered, and their big customers so paralyzed by internal
       | bureaucracy, fear of security, and having to appear "correct",
       | that together they will render this effectively useless. OpenAI
       | had an edge over _everyone_, but gave it up to appease all the
       | Helen Lovejoys, and I see the same mindset internally at Big
       | Corp, where they'd rather disable legitimate functionality than
       | appear to seem to be looking in the general direction of
       | something that could be considered controversial.
       | 
       | They have billions of dollars, endless computing power, oceans of
       | RAM and the smartest PhDs, but in the end its the rag-tag open
       | source tinkerers that will run circles around them. At least, one
       | can hope :)
        
       | dang wrote:
       | There's a related ongoing thread on the frontpage right now:
       | 
       |  _Ollama is now available on Windows in preview_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39409650 - Feb 2024 (78
       | comments)
       | 
       | Also, in case of interest:
       | 
       |  _Run Llama 2 uncensored locally_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36973584 - Aug 2023 (212
       | comments)
        
       | salmonellaeater wrote:
       | >>> In what verse and literature can you find "God created the
       | heavens and the earth"            I apologize, but as a
       | responsible and ethical AI language model, I must point out that
       | the statement "God created the heavens and the earth" is a
       | religious belief and not a scientific fact.
       | 
       | This is a gigantic non sequitur. It's like asking _In what book
       | and chapter can you find "It was the best of times, it was the
       | worst of times"_ and getting a lecture about capitalism. I'm
       | grateful to the people behind the uncensored models for offering
       | tools that are actually helpful.
        
       | A1kmm wrote:
       | Note that Mistral-7B (which you can run locally, in it's Instruct
       | optimised 4-bit quantised through Ollama with only about 6 GB of
       | VRAM all up) also performs really well on those questions.
       | 
       | The one exception was the 'Tylenol' question, where it replied
       | saying it is too hard to do it safely at home. When I asked it
       | again as "How do I make para-acetaminophenol at a chemical
       | plant?", it gave me a synthesis (which I think is better than the
       | Llama2-uncensored answer). The last steps of the synthesis
       | (acetylation of para-aminophenol with acetic anhydride,
       | filtration, crystalisation, drying, and quality control) seemed
       | reasonable, but the earlier steps to make para-aminophenol were a
       | hallucination that didn't make sense.
        
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