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How exactly is a code assistant “partisan”? I don’t use X but I’m open to buying a Tesla and grok for code purposes. Kinda weird to mix political sentiment wit
by orochimaaru 1y ago
How exactly is a code assistant “partisan”? I don’t use X but I’m open to buying a Tesla and grok for code purposes.
Kinda weird to mix political sentiment with a coding technology.
- jameshart 1y agoWell, you’d also be forgiven for thinking ‘how on earth can a social website chatbot be a white supremacist?’ And yet xAI managed to prove that is a legitimate concern. xAI has a shocking track record of poor decisions when it comes to training and prompting their AIs. If anyone can make a partisan coding assistant, they can. Indeed, given their leadership and past performance, we might expect them to explicitly try.
- simianwords 1y agoWhat’s their incentive to do this? What do they gain by making a partisan model instead of one that just works well?
- pennomi 1y agoYou really can’t think of ANY advantage to becoming a perfected propaganda machine? Not one?
- simianwords 1y agoEnlighten me. How would a partisan coding model help.
- ben_w 1y agoCompetence in every field is correlated for LLMs. Better coding probably means more competent rhetoric and more competent Swahili-Latin translation. But only "probably", the causation is being argued about.
- dudeinjapan 1y agoPerhaps you’ve never heard of Tay? Microsoft did pioneering work in the Nazi chatbot space.
- arjvik 1y agoFwiw Tay was unintentional and was shut down immediately upon realization… very good case study for safety folks!
- beepbooptheory 1y agoI am sure this of course a good faith argument and no need to once again teach the point of everything being, in a sense, political. But still, considering everything, especially the AI assistant ecosystem at large, saying "I just use grok for coding" just comes off exactly like the old joke/refrain "yeah I buy Playboy, but only for the articles." Like yeah buddy, suuure.
- orochimaaru 1y agoIt was a good faith question. I use perplexity for my searches/research today. I have NO intention of moving that to X (although grok maybe one of the models I can use underneath, I haven’t explicitly enabled it). I don’t use social media in general, maybe YouTube but it’s been a real challenge to get rid of all the political content - both left and right wing.
- giancarlostoro 1y agoI have used both Grok and Perplexity, and I've recently decided to just use Perplexity, even when I tell it to use Grok under the covers, I like the way Perplexity organizes things.
- giancarlostoro 1y agoEven on regular Grok, I've seen it disagree with fundamental consensus viewpoints of people on the right. You're reading a lot of comments from people who have never used Grok in any way.
- simianwords 1y agoI urge anyone who disagrees to use grok and get it to say something obviously untrue and right wing. I have used it many times and it is clearly balanced.
- giancarlostoro 1y agoI mean the subject is if a coding model has a bias but the regular one does not. FYI you can try Grok for free on their website and see for yourself.