The Cause of Grok’s Increasing Antisemitism? Apparently, Two Lines of Code (Update: One of the Lines of Code Was Removed) - FuelArc News
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Grok, Elon Musk’s homegrown AI assistant on X, has spent the last 48 hours praising Adolf Hitler, parroting racial science, and declaring that Ashkenazi Jews push “anti-white hate.” Like, honestly. What happened behind the scenes to cause this AI output? We’ll dig into the likely cause. For Instance, Grok Now Cites Ugly Antisemitic Tropes Jeez! […]

Update: engineers updated the @Grok system prompt, removing a line that encouraged it to be politically incorrect when the evidence in its training data supported it.

  • wise_pancake@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    5 hours ago

    XAI was founded in 2023, 6 months after Elon acquired Twitter and did his layoffs. 4 months after XAI was created, when it was publicly announced, Musk stated that a politically correct AI would be dangerous

    Anyone working at XAI already knew the game by then, they weren’t on visas who got legacied in.

    During a launch event Friday afternoon, the mogul argued that politically correct AI is “incredibly dangerous” because it requires the technology to provide misleading outputs, citing the lies told by HAL 9000, the murderous AI in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film, “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

    https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/17/ai-musk-chatgpt-xai-00106672#%3A~%3Atext=During+a+launch+event+Friday+afternoon%2C+the+mogul+argued+that+politically+correct+AI+is+“incredibly+dangerous”+because+it+requires+the+technology+to+provide+misleading+outputs%2C+citing+the+lies+told+by+HAL+9000%2C+the+murderous+AI+in+Stanley+Kubrick’s+1968+film%2C+“2001%3A+A+Space+Odyssey.”

    • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      You can change jobs if the new one also sponsors you, and it’s my understanding that xAI tapped people from Tesla, but I might be wrong about that

      Anyways, what’s happening sure looks like malicious compliance to me… It’s really not that hard to get an AI to list far right talking points, it’s just hard to bake it into the model

      So you have people that made a pretty good model, but also can’t figure out basic AI infrastructure? I find that very hard to believe

      • wise_pancake@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Had no idea they were doing that, but that’s plausible

        And yes, it would shock me they can build this model this well and fuck this up.

        I just hold little sympathy for the employees.

        • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
          2·
          3 hours ago

          I mean… It is genuinely hard to work for someone not evil. Let’s say you’re an AI engineer… Meta is probably the best because most of the non-corporate LLMs flow from there… But they’re also using it to build personalized echo chambers, which is horrible

          OpenAI is at the top and Microsoft has shown every inclination to make it a monopoly, so I could understand wanting to work on competitors

          You could go smaller and work somewhere like anthropic, but then you don’t have the resources to be on the cutting edge (depending on your specialty)

          I blame people who buy Teslas more than those who work at Tesla at this point. Especially when they slow walk the bad things…I mean, Twitter would probably be less Nazi if more talent stayed onboard to resist institutionally