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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 89 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Not haywire. It was specifically prompted to get that output.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 110 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

It was asked leading questions about embarrassing topics, but the over-the-top, fawning praise for Musk was baked into the responses without being specifically requested in the prompts.

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 61 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I think this is the main story. I don't think it's new info, but it confirms the issue persists: this LLM is so heavily trained to fawn over Musk that it doesn't exercise any application of context or attempt to find truth.

Which is sad.

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

No current AI understands context, they are just glorified word predictions!

[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I agree and go further; no AI understands anything. Just like a calculator doesn't understand "2+2=4", it's just pushing numbers around.

[–] khepri@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Grok is Harrison Bergeron and Musk is Diana Glampers

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 17 hours ago

It's really just an affirmation machine for tech bros

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

Yes, just some people figuring out that Grok was steered toward ass-kissing Musk no matter what, and exploited that for funny output. So the takeaways are:

  • Musk is such a loser he insisted on Grok kissing his ass
  • LLMs remain stupid and have no idea what they are saying