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The fact that we have anthropomorphized AI systems (not just Grok) is because of the way in which we interact with these system with natural language.

• guywithahat 9mo ago
  That's sort of my thought too. Grok can't apologize, but it also can't do anything without being told. A hammer can't apologize, but it also doesn't know the difference between hitting a nail or a person. Perhaps we could design a hammer that does less harm to a human but if it comes at the cost of being a worse hammer I don't want it
  • WarOnPrivacy 9mo ago
    > Grok can't apologize, but it also can't do anything without being told. If you mean being told by the end user, this famously hasn't been the case. Dialing back the only restriction was enough for Grok to create nsfw material (w/o any request to create that). [Grok] didn’t hesitate to spit out fully uncensored topless videos of Taylor Swift the very first time I used it without me even specifically asking the bot to take her clothes off.
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    • rowanG077 9mo ago
      That sounds like weasel words. "without me even specifically asking the bot to take her clothes off." What did they ask? If they asked for sexy, revealing pictures or something in that direction I think Grok delivered what was asked.
      • guywithahat 9mo ago
        He turned on spicy mode, which was the NSFW image generator. As far as I can tell, it's back to producing "spicy" pics but won't produce genitals/actual nudity, what the user was describing seems to have been a now-patched bug where it was generating actual nudity in spicy mode
• roywiggins 9mo ago
  It's 50-80% because they are RLHFed into talking with "I". This was far less of an issue when it was just GPT-3 in a completion UI. But people find LLMs trained to produce text that looks like it's coming from a personality to be more compelling: ChatGPT is when the tech exploded into popularity. LLMs that aren't chat tuned are just not as easy to anthropomorphize.
  • biophysboy 9mo ago
    I really wish I could use custom products w/ RLHF turned off. I know that's not how it works, but the stupid marketing copy speak makes me use them less
    • digiown 9mo ago
      If you use the API directly via open webui, etc., it is not nearly as annoying. You can also system prompt it into sounding more reasonable.
      • biophysboy 9mo ago
        thanks for the rec
  • Terr_ 9mo ago
    My own minor attempt to hold back this tide involves urging everyone to imagine LLM exchanges a theater-play script document. The character's lines are not the author. Just imagine how different all this would be if every prompt contained something to make the character(s) obviously fictional, ex: "You are Count Dracula, dread lord of the night, and a visitor has the following question..." We hopefully wouldn't see mindless reports that "vampires are real now" or "Draculabot has developed coping mechanisms for the dark thirst, agrees to try tomato juice."
    • lostmsu 9mo ago
      That was accurate only before the instruction tuning.