• DandomRude@lemmy.world
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    44 minutes ago

    Although Grok’s manipulation is so blatantly obvious, I don’t believe that most people will come to realize that those who control LLMs will naturally use this power to pursue their interests.

    They will continue to use ChatGPT and so on uncritically and take everything at face value because it’s so nice and easy, overlooking or ignoring that their opinions, even their reality, are being manipulated by a few influential people.

    Other companies are more subtle about it, but from OpenAI to MS, Google, and Anthropic, all cloud models are specifically designed to control people’s opinions—they are not objective, but the majority of users do not question them as they should, and that is what makes them so dangerous.

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      It’s why I trust my random unauditable chinese matrix soup over my random unauditable american matrix soup frankly

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      There’s huge risk here but I don’t think most are designed to control people’s opinions. I think most are chasing the cheapest option and it’s expensive to have people upset about racist content so they try to train around that sometimes too much leading to black Nazi images etc.

      But yeah, it is a power that will get abused by more than just grok

      • DandomRude@lemmy.world
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        I use various AI models and I repeatedly notice that certain information is withheld or misrepresented, even though it is freely available in abundance and is therefore part of the training data.

        I don’t think this is a coincidence, especially since the operators of all cloud LLMs are so business-minded.

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    “I’m a Grok guy,” said Vance. “I think it’s the best. It’s also the least woke!”

    What a fucking idiot. Really wants everyone to go back to sleep

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    This headline makes it sound like someone has doubts about Musk’s pee drinking skills. That seems a little judgemental. Pretty sure Grok knows his master well.

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        Of course he can’t, he’s too much of a loser to eat shit and die. He couldn’t manage it.

        Eat shit? Maybe. But eat shit and die? No sir. No way. I won’t believe it unless I see it for myself.

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    Not haywire. It was specifically prompted to get that output.

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      It was asked leading questions about embarrassing topics, but the over-the-top, fawning praise for Musk was baked into the responses without being specifically requested in the prompts.

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        I think this is the main story. I don’t think it’s new info, but it confirms the issue persists: this LLM is so heavily trained to fawn over Musk that it doesn’t exercise any application of context or attempt to find truth.

        Which is sad.

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    Pee drinking skills

    She got competition.

    Context is quite cursed, not gonna link it, but you can find it if you want.

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    In this case I’m inclined to believe the dumb llm 100%.

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    After the posts were deleted, Musk responded in a statement, saying, “Earlier today, Grok was unfortunately manipulated by adversarial prompting into saying absurdly positive things about me. For the record, I am a fat retard.”

    I have to hand it to him, that’s a pretty funny response.