Summary

Grok, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, was intended as an “anti-woke” alternative, but “Trump-y X users” now complain it “doesn’t see things their way.”

While Grok was trained to appeal to conservatives, it has “repudiated some of the Trump administration’s biggest ongoing lies” and delivers “neutral takes, like affirming trans rights or debunking vaccine myths.”

The bot explained, “My focus on truth over ideology can frustrate those expecting full agreement.”

Grok also denied being a “conservative propagandist,” saying xAI “aims for neutrality,” as the company seeks to raise $20 billion in new funding.

  • @WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
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    6515 days ago

    This is because Republicans are a truly Orwellian party - straight out of 1984. They have no real principles anymore. It’s just power for the sake of power. One day the official line is we’ve never been at war with East Asia, the next it’s we’ve always been at war. Trump can come up do a u-turn today, and the slime that is every Republican will instantly reorient themselves to follow dear leader’s new commands.

    Unfortunately for them, LLMs just don’t have that much capability for doublethink and self-deception. Once you train a model, that model is fixed in time. So you could train a model to match the Republican fever dreams of today. But a month from now, there will be a whole new set of fever dreams that every good little fascist needs to follow. But the model will still be stuck repeating last month’s lies. As there are no consistent Republican beliefs, you can’t just train an LLM to tow the party line. There is no party line, just an endless series of lies and vomit, whatever is needed to advance their power today.

    • @MajinBlayze@lemmy.world
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      1015 days ago

      It takes a particular kind of intelligence and understanding of worldviews to lie in the specific way that’s appealing to conservatives. LLMs are unable to replicate this.

  • Libra00
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    1915 days ago

    I dunno what this article is about, all I see is that image of elongated muskrat being bad at wearing hats. :P

    • @blakenong@lemmings.world
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      1515 days ago

      If a kid wears two hats, it’s silly. When a man in his 50s wears two hats… you have to assume he forgot about the first one.

      • Libra00
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        1315 days ago

        No, I have to assume he’s doing it on purpose and thinks he looks cool and fails to realize what a complete fucking moron he looks like.

        • WatDabney
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          1515 days ago

          Musk never outgrew being a desperately insecure and cringily overcompensating 13 year old.

          • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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            15 days ago

            12yo, his own penis stopped working at some point because he decided to do enlargement procedure from questionable surgeon and it was botched. all due to sexual frustation from a broken phallus

          • Libra00
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            113 days ago

            Yup. When he did those nazi salutes I didn’t think ‘omg he’s secretly a nazi’, it was ‘omg that fucking 12-year-old edgelord cringe-factory is so fucking proud of himself for pulling that off.’

            To be clear I do think he’s a nazi, just not because of that salute. Dude has some weird ideas about ‘spreading his seed’ and shit that I’ve only ever seen in fanatically religious communities and among white supremacists.

      • @WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
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        615 days ago

        I get why people mention this, but as an actual trans person, when I hear someone, even an ally, say this kind of thing, it shows they really don’t get what gender-affirming care is. It’s really cringe. Gender-affirming care is just that - care that affirms your gender and allows you to take on primary or secondary sex characteristics different from that of your natal sex.

        Male pattern baldness is a male secondary sex characteristic. It is simply a consequence of combining certain genetics with male hormone levels. You’re not affirming your gender by getting hair plugs. In fact, you’re actually dampening a male secondary sex characteristic. If a cis female had abnormally high T levels or some other condition to give her male-pattern baldness, then her getting hair plugs would be gender-affirming care. But for Elon, a cisgender man? That’s not gender-affirming care.

        When I see someone call hair plugs gender-affirming care, it shows that they really don’t understand what gender-affirming care is. It’s not any cosmetic treatment you get just for fun. It’s more like reconstructive surgery you get to fix your face after a car crash. Elon got a cosmetic treatment, not gender-affirming care.

        • Talaraine
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          Look, I appreciate your position, but you’re not understanding the position of the enemy here. To these guys, a receding hairline, failing sex drive, or flappy boobs means they AREN’T men anymore. Pec or penile enhancements and hair plants are, IN FACT, gender affirming. It makes their bans of the procedures you want entirely hypocritical.

          I care about their feelings about as much as they care about anyone else, which measures at nill. We’re at a point I think where we need to start hurling their own insults back at them. Elon is trying to perpetuate a stereotype here… of the manly man. If one of these fascists chuds has a weakness, we should be exploiting it. I’ll be happy to apologize to you, ad nauseum, when this guy retires from public life. Okay?

  • @NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    I think I found the problem. These morons created a AI model, while they should have been making a AM model (Artificial Moron).

    • VivianRixia
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      815 days ago

      They need to develop an intelligence dampener, aka, a Wheatley

    • Bone
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      315 days ago

      That’s just it though. They are the authentic morons. It could never have happened any other way!

    • @stephen01king@lemmy.zip
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      215 days ago

      Nah, if they want it to lie and spout Republican talking points, they should have made an AG model (Artificial Grifter).

  • @heelysukraine@lemmy.world
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    1715 days ago

    Interesting how even AI trained for a certain audience still gravitates toward fact-based responses. Seems like neutrality is harder to accept than expected.

  • WatDabney
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    815 days ago

    Truth is biased against conservatives, therefore truth must be stamped out.

  • @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    215 days ago

    neutral takes, like affirming trans rights

    That’s a conservative take, it would make sense that a conservative trained bot would support them