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[-] sundray@lemmus.org 119 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 66 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago

No current AI understands context, they are just glorified word predictions!

[-] bear 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I agree and go further; no AI understands anything. Just like a calculator doesn't understand "2+2=4", it's just pushing numbers around.

[-] EldritchFeminity 4 points 4 days ago

But at least the calculator is designed to combine numbers in the right order. LLMs, on the other hand, could come up with a different answer every time and different models would come up with wildly different answers based on their training data.

The calculator comes with guarantees.

[-] khepri@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Grok is Harrison Bergeron and Musk is Diana Glampers

It's really just an affirmation machine for tech bros

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Yes, just some people figuring out that Grok was steered toward ass-kissing Musk no matter what, and exploited that for funny output. So the takeaways are:

  • Musk is such a loser he insisted on Grok kissing his ass
  • LLMs remain stupid and have no idea what they are saying
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