There are no adults. I learned this early on, and I will interrupt you mid sentence to nail this down if you say it in my presence.

There's just some lies so toxic I won't have them spoken in my presence

Okay? I'm frankly more worried about how they're doing a genocide and killing medical care, but I still think meteorologists have shown their value through their absence

Do you not think the soundscape of a place matters? If you don't understand why it makes a place better, I take back what I said about civilizational collapse

It's subtle to some people, but it affects your emotions, and how you perceive an environment. We're wired to go on alert when the forest goes silent, and to pay attention to loud noises... So when a plane, one of the loudest things in modern life, takes off and leaves the airport quiet, that's deeply disturbing on an animal level. When you walk through long hallways in the depth of night, it's unsettling no matter how brightly lit it is... Less so if a hundred other people are dragging their luggage and coughing

It's why they play birdsong and music at Disney... The rattle of a rollercoaster in the distance is terrifying without it

The sounds of life make a place feel safe, even if the paint is peeling, a light flickers, and there's no one around, the paths at Disney always feel safe

That feeling is civilizational collapse right there

The sign of a dying empire is when you no longer bother to etch designs on the buildings. It's when you no longer give out swag. It's when you cut everything that doesn't make money, but does just make things nice

Doing things just to make things nice is good. It shouldn't need a reason beyond that

Lol. It already happened again in New Mexico...

You know, this has drastically increased my respect for meteorologists. I always thought they were convenient, but I generally just look outside for my weather

And I mean, I knew they were important for hurricanes and such... But holy shit, a few months after the cuts and rainstorms are killing dozens

I'm not sure you get the problem here

You can talk to an llm at any moment of any day. They will engage with you endlessly. They're becoming the front end for search, and at some point might become the primary interface for your device

It's a huge problem if they manage to make it a propoganda tool, and that's the goal here

I mean... It is genuinely hard to work for someone not evil. Let's say you're an AI engineer... Meta is probably the best because most of the non-corporate LLMs flow from there... But they're also using it to build personalized echo chambers, which is horrible

OpenAI is at the top and Microsoft has shown every inclination to make it a monopoly, so I could understand wanting to work on competitors

You could go smaller and work somewhere like anthropic, but then you don't have the resources to be on the cutting edge (depending on your specialty)

I blame people who buy Teslas more than those who work at Tesla at this point. Especially when they slow walk the bad things...I mean, Twitter would probably be less Nazi if more talent stayed onboard to resist institutionally

You can change jobs if the new one also sponsors you, and it's my understanding that xAI tapped people from Tesla, but I might be wrong about that

Anyways, what's happening sure looks like malicious compliance to me... It's really not that hard to get an AI to list far right talking points, it's just hard to bake it into the model

So you have people that made a pretty good model, but also can't figure out basic AI infrastructure? I find that very hard to believe

I'm not. What would you do in this situation? Let's throw in that you're on a visa, so you can't just quit

I'd maliciously comply.

You want access to the prompt? Here you go boss man. You want grok to share your Nazi views? Sorry sir, we'll have to totally start over with training data. ~~Or we could use a modified RAG~~

You want help with the prompt? Sure boss man, what do you want it to do? Oh, you want it to notice Jewish names? Sure boss man, I don't know what you mean by that, but now it keeps saying it's "noticing". That's weird

Oh, you want to fine-tune it on your tweets? Sure thing boss man... Oh, would you look at that, it thinks it's you. Nothing can be done about that, it's too much data from one source. Well, should we roll it back boss man? Your call

I'd just keep playing this game... Elon isn't going to come out and say "I want grok to be a Nazi", and I'm not going to read between the lines for him. I'm not going to come up with ideas to solve the problem, I'm going to let Elon's ego direct the course and throw out "we've designed grok to seek truth over all else" as much as possible

Do they? Because every time I've looked at the issue, it seems like they manufactured a crisis out of a small number of unrelated home invasions

Why? They're going to brag about it and call the victims criminals

Peppa pig isn't real. This isn't a situation that could ever happen

Can you suspend your disbelief so hard that a doctor turns your child into processed meat because of a misunderstanding?

If I try, I don't know how to empathize with the situation except to be angry at the doctor, or the fact that a hospital offers that service at all. It's an absurd premise

This isn't a joke about a mother's pain. It's a comic about wordplay, and the disturbing implications of "our world but everyone is pigs"