This is a bad PR move for Grok because most people don't want to use a right wing AI. Why should I? I have multiple better AIs to use. After he failed to tune it to promote the idea there was white genocide in S. Africa, he said something along the lines "people are going to have to get used to the idea that Grok doesn't agree with them all the time." He should have stuck to that.
Edit: I want Grok to succeed but I'm afriad this move by Musk will kill it
PaulHoule•7mo ago
There is that saying that "reality has a left wing bias", otherwise why would the right need "alternative facts?"
pointed out that newspaper reporters tended to lean left but newspaper reporters tended to lean right and you could tease out both of these influences.
labrador•7mo ago
The evidence is overwhelming that Jan 6th was right wing political violence, not just from newspaper reporters, but from hours of real time video, audio and citizen reporting depicting the events of that day. I won't be gas lighted into not believing my own eyes and ears. For Elon Musk to train Grok to say otherwise is the major fail that will cause a lot of people to not use Grok. That's why I characterized Musk's comments as a PR fail
rsynnott•7mo ago
> Edit: I want Grok to succeed but I'm afriad this move by Musk will kill it
What would 'success' look like? Given that it's just another LLM whose only distinction is being owned by the same company as twitter, one might be forgiven for assuming that being a propaganda engine for Musk _is_ the success state.
labrador•7mo ago
It's in the spirit of "may the best AI win." I want an environment of multiple contenders involved in healthy competition. It feels to me like Musk is kneecapping his own AI before it has a chance to really develop in interesting ways.
Zigurd•7mo ago
Grok got funded to be a right-wing AI. That's the only distinctive thing about it.
labrador•7mo ago
Edit: I want Grok to succeed but I'm afriad this move by Musk will kill it
PaulHoule•7mo ago
This media critic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bagdikian
pointed out that newspaper reporters tended to lean left but newspaper reporters tended to lean right and you could tease out both of these influences.
labrador•7mo ago
rsynnott•7mo ago
What would 'success' look like? Given that it's just another LLM whose only distinction is being owned by the same company as twitter, one might be forgiven for assuming that being a propaganda engine for Musk _is_ the success state.
labrador•7mo ago
Zigurd•7mo ago