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US Government announces $200M Grok contract a week after 'MechaHitler'
- duxup 1y agoI wonder how many politicians and political appointees understand that these LLMs are just doing word math and aren't "intelligent"?
- toomuchtodo 1y agoNetwork and relationships supersede facts and domain knowledge in most parts of life unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on perspective). One may be smart and logical, but can you social engineer like Sam Altman or distort reality like Musk? People are the underlying OS, everything above is fancy trimmings.
- Hikikomori 1y agoNetwork and relationships as in political contributions aka bribes?
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- bigyabai 1y agoThe exact same number of politicians and political appointees that understand the need to create artificial demand for these services.
- piombisallow 1y agoComputers are just "doing math" too and the government uses them
- duxup 1y agoNot quite the same. SQL returns pretty predictable results and we can talk about the data. LLMs are treated differently and often opaque and the feds seem determined to remove anyone doing critical thinking.
- sunaookami 1y agoWhere's the difference to politicians? ;)
- duxup 1y agoI agree, I suspect most don't know.
- OhNoNotAgain_99 1y ago[dead]
- huijzer 1y agoI don’t get the whole MechaHitler outcry, LLMs have been doing weird things for years now. Sometimes randomly this, sometimes randomly that. Even Google and Microsoft had many cases were AI gave weird responses
- bithive123 1y agoYeah weird how LLMs randomly seem to reflect the politics of their owners, so random I guess we'll never know, weird.
- tines 1y agoDifference being the CEOs of Google and Microsoft didn't do a Nazi salute before their bots started extolling the virtues of Hitler's ideology. Every damn time.
- zdragnar 1y agoIt does seem that it is egregious enough it should have been caught in QA before being released to the public. Everything else around it is a dopamine high from joining in on a hate train against Musk.
- duskwuff 1y agoGrok has seemed unusually prone to bizarre behavior, even if you don't count the times that its system prompt was modified (like the infamous "please talk about white genocide" incident in May). Part of the problem seems to be that it's being trained on recent Twitter posts, resulting in a weird sort of feedback loop when users discuss Grok's behavior.
- edoceo 1y agoGrok was tweaked, it got directions to be crazier.
- javier123454321 1y agoLet me fix the headline to remove clickbait: US Government announces $200M Grok contract
- Hikikomori 1y agoLet me fix it; US government pays $200M for mechahitler
- javier123454321 1y agoFunny
- tomhow 1y agoAnthropic, Google, OpenAI and XAI Granted Up to $200M from Defense Department - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44565416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44565416 - July 2025 (130 comments)