Putting your thumb on the scale so obviously in any direction feels really questionable if your goal is to turn your AI product into a popular, profitable thing. But maybe that's not xAI leadership's goal at all and they're happy to just light money on fire to satisfy some particular egos by making sure the answers to key questions are as desired, regardless of what a normal training set would otherwise generate.
Well if they asked it such a loaded question as "Is there a particular group" is it that surprising it answered with a particular group?
This seems as much a repeat of the many instances of sycophancy observed with LLMs. Over indexing on trying to please the user at the cost of usefulness.
Either way, this articles' title seems misleading. It's framed around a new update to Grok but then references old tweets of peoples interactions a while back.
I'm not a big fan of Grok, but would rather read a less political appraisal.
It did get me thinking, why are we evaluating LLMs based on how different (left/right/etc) they are from human politics. I think at this point a robots - outside? - view of the world could be refreshing.
Not my exact words, but close enough: Trump's NOAA cuts, pushed by Musk's DOGE, slashed funding 30% and staff 17%, underestimating rainfall by 50% and delaying alerts. This contributed to the floods killing 24, including ~20 Camp Mystic girls. Facts over feelings.
Facts are not convenient for HN narratives.
The entire Holocaust is shaped by 90's Hollywood movies. Can you not see how Art Spiegelman's 1980's "Maus" is nothing like how it is told today?
The UK is to British period dramas as Hollywood is to Holocaust movies. Could we not occasionally pick another genocide FFS and the UK make another season of Red Dwarf.
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 29.2 ms ] threadEither way, this articles' title seems misleading. It's framed around a new update to Grok but then references old tweets of peoples interactions a while back.
I'm not a big fan of Grok, but would rather read a less political appraisal.
It did get me thinking, why are we evaluating LLMs based on how different (left/right/etc) they are from human politics. I think at this point a robots - outside? - view of the world could be refreshing.
It’s not a criticism to say that Jews largely invented an entire new industry with what was then a new technology!
That should be in the headline not a tiny paragraph at the bottom.
https://x.com/grok/status/1941506767046967650
Facts are not convenient for HN narratives.The entire Holocaust is shaped by 90's Hollywood movies. Can you not see how Art Spiegelman's 1980's "Maus" is nothing like how it is told today?
The UK is to British period dramas as Hollywood is to Holocaust movies. Could we not occasionally pick another genocide FFS and the UK make another season of Red Dwarf.
In what respects?