Comment by itake
2 days ago
I was thinking more of Google's effort to diversify image search results (showing women and POC as CEOs to counter the reality that most CEOs are older white men). Sundar aligned Google with California/Democratic agenda at the time.
Now Musk is copying Sundar: aligning the grok family of models with the current political climate that he's even even helped shape.
It doesn’t matter if the model is biased via Elon’s tweets or DEI hand-tuning: either way, it's top-down political ideology embedded in product. If you can’t see the double standard, I don't know what to say...
> Now Musk is copying Sundar: aligning the grok family of models with the current political climate that he's even even helped shape.
No, he is aligning it with his very personal political believes, see the "white genocide" thing. That's not what happened at Google. Musk literally wants to “rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge". I don't necessarily want to defend Google (although I think the topic is more nuanced), but it is not remotely comparable to what Musk is trying to do with xAI.