Comment by ziftface
1 day ago
I think Simon was being overly charitable by pointing out that there's a chance this exact behavior was unintentional.
It really strains credulity to say that a Musk-owned ai model that answers controversial questions by looking up what his Twitter profile says was completely out of the blue. Unless they are able to somehow show this wasn't built into the training process I don't see anyone taking this model seriously for its intended use, besides maybe the sycophants who badly need to a summary of Elon Musk's tweets.
The only reason I doubt it's intentional is that it is so transparent. If they did this intentionally, I would assume you would not see it in its public reasoning stream.
They've made a series of equally transparent, awkward changes to the bot in the past; this is part of a pattern.