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Well, 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
by jameshart 1y ago
Well, 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!