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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

This is especially ironic with all of Elon's claims about making Grok truth seeking. Well, "truth seeking" was probably always code for making an LLM that would parrot Elon's views.

Elon may have failed at making Grok peddle racist conspiracy theories like he wanted, but this shouldn't be taken as proof that LLMs can't be manipulated that way. He probably went with the laziest option possible of directly prompting it as opposed to fine tuning it on racist content or anything more advanced.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 57 minutes ago* (last edited 57 minutes ago)

Yeah, I reckon he could pay a bunch of dweebs to do racist reinforcement learning, but then the secret circle becomes so big that it's only a matter of time until there's a leak to the press. Plus, he really hates paying people.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 hours ago

Musk says: “At times, I think Grok-3 is kind of scary smart.” Grok is just remixing its training data — but a stochastic parrot is still more reality-based than Elon Musk. [Bloomberg, archive]

If someone roasted me such such surgical precision like that, I'd delete my entire Internet presence out of shame. God damn.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Finally, a non-sexy picture.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

why is this robot not sexy soyweiser

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

I'm GamerSexual, and that my dear Sir is no Gamer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe the robot can finally explain to me how Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack" is actually music and not just somewhat organized noise?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

b-b-but all music is by definition organised noise . . . !

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

it will explain its position with interpretive twerking

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

I'm filing suit for copyright infringement AND breach of privacy, clearly they've been training on my personal webcam recordings.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

It was me, I stole all the sexy robots