Would AI be "nicer" if trained on data from before the rise of social media
Would AI be "nicer" if trained on data from before the rise of social media

Would AI be "nicer" if trained on data from before the rise of social media

My thinking goes like this:

1) people used to keep their opinions to themselves much more than today

2) social media put our opinions on a hair trigger

3) negative public opinioms turned the collective voice of the human race from 'gemerally respectful' to shrill and hideous. When person from group A complains about group B, everyone in group B assumes everyone in group A hates them, even though that persons opinion may just have been his own. The response to being hated is to hate back. Not-so-positive positive feedback loop.

Social media really started taking off with Facebook. So let's say this explosion of data vitriol started happening around 2007. What I want to know is if you trained an llm entirely on data from the early 2000s, 1990s and 1980s, how would the models do on some of these ominous white-paper tests, like the one where the AI blackmails the CEO to prevent from being turned off, or let's the guy die in a hot room?

I know there was lots of awful stuff on the internet back then too, but not like now. I want to know how much safe those llms are by comparison if there's enough data from back then to train on.

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