Comment by OJFord
1 day ago
First I'm hearing of it all, but no, that's clear conspiracy theory territory, Musk makes some intervention like that and then X AI publishes TFA about the 'unauthorised' action 'circumventing' established processes etc.? No, Occam is not satisfied.
(Obligatory that's not what the razor is about anyway: it's that give a bunch of otherwise equally probable explanations, the simplest is likely the correct one; not just what's the simplest possible hypothesis you can imagine that is the answer.)
Elon has a very specific history around this particular issue that I suspect a random new-hire would not: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/south-africa-racist-white...
A CEO force-merging a change to production would indeed be an "unauthorized action circumventing established processes" by exact words.
I agree it's ridiculous, but it's mostly because the alternative hypotheses make no sense. There's making a change to a prompt without testing or review (e.g. the ChatGPT sycophancy incident), and then there's prompting a LLM with a very specific response that is not relevant to most people.
> A CEO force-merging a change to production would indeed be an "unauthorized action circumventing established processes" by exact words.
Of course it would, but I wouldn't expect this post to follow it, especially at a Musk company, was my point.
But anyway, I'm just further speculating that other speculation seems unlikely to me, heh.