Comment by jcranmer
4 days ago
There have been a few recent instances where Grok has been tuned to spew out white supremacist dreck that should be political anathema--most notably the "but let's talk about white genocide" phase a few months ago and more recently spewing out Nazi antisemitism. Now granted, those were probably caused more by the specific prompts being used than the underlying model, but if the owner is willing to twist its output to evince a particular political bias, what trust do you have that he isn't doing so to the actual training data?
xAI has over 1000 employees. If he was polluting the model we would know about.
If?
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1936493967320953090
He seems pretty open about it.
Who was responsible for the "kill the Boer" dreck? Were they disciplined? Did they get fired? Why don't we know that?
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I think it's far more likely there are a tiny handful of mid-tier unhinged sycophants among those 1000 employees who think that pleasing Elon means polluting the model to make Grok an unhinged sycophant, because that's what an unhinged sycophant would think to do.
Elon explicitly ordering this? Press X to doubt.
Why should these topics be outright banned?
Are you asking in good faith why non-sequiturs that stoke racism shouldn't be injected into unrelated twitter threads?
Even related twitter threads, do you want interracial hatred to be increased?
Here's why it should be banned, because it leads to this shit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
How can people be so fucking stupid that they want to be coy about recreating the most shameful atrocities in human history? Teenage idiots a few years removed without any understanding of the world beyond their nose and brains turned to putrid rot.
The direction that right wing reactionaries are taking the world in could not possibly be more disgusting and pathetic.
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