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[-] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Hard to read an article by an author I respect when it starts by heavily emphasizing "alignment" and then over-attributing it to why Grok failed. As far as I know (and despite all the AI corporations publishing articles triumphantly proclaiming the power of their systems via spookiness): AI does not align or misalign, it Generates Next Word from a databank after receiving an input. Whether that input comes with the prompt "be unwoke" or the databank contains bad data, does not mean it's not working as intended. Even in being... No, especially in being Mechahitler.

[-] iloveDigit@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

AI does align or misalign, but not "AI" as a marketing term for chat bots and image generators

[-] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Well, but that's accurate, though. They were trying to align Grok to certain political beliefs, but that isn't how it works (because it's just generating next word). So they had repeated failures including some very public and hilarious ones, so they're going back to the drawing board and trying to create a whole artificial reality now for AIs to draw from.

I don't think that Wikipedia features nearly so prominently in the corpus of a lot of these chatbots or how they form their worldview, and so I don't think that is why they are making Grokipedia, but I don't think the underlying ideas that fine-tuning political beliefs into Grok failed or that they are now trying to rewrite the fabric of reality are wrong. I am a little suspicious I guess about whether those two things are even strongly connected in their goals.

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