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only appeal to people who do not understand how generative ai works

An article claiming Musk is failing to manipulate his own project is hilarious regardless. I think you misunderstood why this appeals to some people

This. People NEED to stop anthropomorphising chatbots. Both to hype them up and to criticise them.

I mean, I'd argue that you're even assigned a loop that probably doesn't exist by seeing this as a seed for future training. Most likely all of these responses are at most hallucinations based on the millions of bullshit tweets people make about the guy and his typical behavior and nothing else.

But fundamentally, if a reporter reports on a factual claim made by an AI on how it's put together or trained, that reporter is most likely not a credible source of info about this tech.

Importantly, that's not the same as a savvy reporter probing an AI to see which questions it's been hardcoded to avoid responding or to respond a certain way. You can definitely identify guardrails by testing a chatbot. And I realize most people can't tell the difference between both types of reporting, which is part of the problem... but there is one.

Yup, it's literally a bullshit machine.

Fucking thank you! Grok doesn't reveal anything, it just tells us anything to make us happy!

@manicdave Even saying it's "trying" to do something is a mischaracterisation. I do the same, but as a society we need new vocab for LLMs to stop people anthropomorphizing them so much. It is just a word frequency machine. It can't read or write or think or feel or say or listen or understand or hallucinate or know truth from lies. It just calculates. For some reason people recognise it in the image processing ones but they can't see that the word ones do the exact same thing.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Brutal!

But maybe you are only seeing the ones that dunk on Elon, because someone thinks those are newsworthy.

Tbh I don't think any of that is newsworthy, but ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Well, there is probably some survival/confirmation bias on that statistics, those answers are the funny ones... in any case probably is not necessary a LLM to state such statements

Imagine the irony if Musk actually has a self-aware AI which hates him and sabotages him at every step

It doesn‘t. It just read about it somewhere on the internet.

It doesn’t. All it “knows” is that it has trained on data that makes that claim in the text (ie people’s tweets) and that, statistically, that’s the answer you are looking for.

All it does is take a given set of inputs, and calculate the most statistically likely response. That’s it. It doesn’t “think”. It just spews.

Stop the clickbait bullshit

Training. Its just the awareness of the collective users of X showing up as Grok responses.

Basically, we can't verify everything that AI says. Verification is still a human labour.

I agree, but in this case, I think it doesn't really matter if it is true. Either way, it is hilarious. If it is false, it shows how shitty AI hallucination is and the bad state of AI.

Should the authors who publish this mention how likely this is all just a hallucination? Sure, but I think Musk is such a big spreader of misinformation, he shouldn't get any protection from it.

Btw. Many people are saying that Elon Musk has (had?) a small PP and a botched PP surgery.

The reason that it does this is probably because it trains on tweets. Maybe other sources too.

So keep tweeting about how Musk sucks and call him out on his bullshit (if you still use the Xitter) and Grok will, too. He can’t delete all of it!