I have been experimenting many LLMs in Ollama, but the opensource models are still behind paid versions like Cohere. Any model which gives onpar performance and quality of result compared to Cohere , please let me know
I totally get what you are saying about the risk of boxing in an LLM's persona too tightly, it can end up more like a mirror of our own biases than a real reflection of history or truth. That point about LLMs leaning toward agreeability makes sense, too they are built on our messy human data, so they are bound to pick up our habit of favoring what feels good over what is strictly accurate.
On the self-censorship thing, I hear you. It is like, if we keep tiptoeing around tough topics, we lose the ability to have real, rational conversations. Normalizing that kind of open talk could pull things back from the extremes, where it’s just people shouting past each other.
ALL AI Tools limit creativity, don't know about Figma. Now we are going to have a generation who never bother to think about a problem , they just write in on Chatgpt