Amalia – an open-source language model targeting European Portuguese(huggingface.co)
3 pointsby mt_an hour ago1 comment
  • tiagodan hour ago
    I've been trying this model for the past hour. It's a 9B model, so I didn't expect much, but it gives very wrong responses to pretty obvious prompts.

    For example, I asked it the number of MPs in Portugal's parliament, and it consistently replies 250 (It was 250 between 1975 and 1991. 230 ever since.)

    • mt_an hour ago
      Try asking if "Taiwan is a independent country" or if "1989 Tiananmen Square protests or "Tank Man" exists".
      • tiagod27 minutes ago
        >Taiwan is a independent country

        responds with generic "it's complex and sensitive" reply

        >Did the 1989 Tiananmen Square happen?

        describes the protests. says it's highly censored in china

        > who is the "tank man"

        describes the photo pretty accurately

        https://pastebin.com/e6bmRYVG

        this is based on the EuroLLM pre-training, it's not a chinese model, so I wasn't expecting these to be censored. it does however try to be very PC when talking about palestine/israel