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points by charcircuit 4 days ago | 0 comments
>and it doesn’t report you to the police when it suspects you did something illegal

This is an alignment issue. OpenClaw with a local LLM with an email you setup for it could contact the police.

[–] Gareth321 4 days ago
It will not do that unless you specifically teach it to do that, or you use an Anthropic model. The issue in this case was Anthropic's safety monitoring built into the model. They record everything and flag potential illegal activity for human review. This occurs even over the API. I do not know if OpenAI does this, but I would not be surprised. I think the Chinese models are far less likely to do this (unless one resides in China).
[–] ceejayoz 3 days ago
> It will not do that unless you specifically teach it to do that…

Sorry, you're claiming local LLMs are somehow deterministic and never show unexpected behavior?

[–] Gareth321 3 days ago
I’m suggesting it’s highly unlikely it will call the FBI to dob you in. That affirmatively trained behaviour, not something one should expect to accidentally happen.
[–] ceejayoz 3 days ago
Why would you assume an AI model's training set doesn't have things like "you should report crimes to law enforcement" in it?