As much as I’d love to take this as face value, people taking a run with what an AI told them is highly problematic.
Grok Reveals Elon Musk Has ‘Tried Tweaking My Responses’ After AI Bot Repeatedly Labels Him a ‘Top Misinformation Spreader’
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Polderviking@feddit.nl 1 year ago
sircac@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A LLM can “reveal” also that water ice melts into mapple syrup given the proper prompts, if people already can (consciously and not) lie proportionally to their biases I don’t understand why would somebody treat a LLM output as a fact…
Someone8765210932@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I agree, but I think it doesn’t really matter if it is true. Either way it is hilarious, but if it is false, it shows how shitty AI hallucination is and the bad state of AI.
Should the authors who publish this mention how likely this is all just a hallucination? Sure, but I think Musk is such a big spreader of misinformation, he shouldn’t get any protection from it.
Btw. Many people are saying that Elon Musk has (had?) a small PP and a botched PP surgery.
bstix@feddit.dk 1 year ago
It’s usually possible to ask the AI for the sources. A proper journalist should always question the validity of their sources.
Unfortunately, journalism is dead. This is just someone writing funny clickbait, but it’s quite ironic how they use AI to discredit AI.
It makes sense for a journalist to discredit AI because AI took their jobs. This is just not the way to do it, because AI is also better at writing clickbait.
MITM0@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In other words a proprietary Response-Generator can be tweaked, how obvious.
I am wondering what kind of person will take Grok’s word at face value.
kambusha@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Show us on this circuit board where he touched you
lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Brutal!
pyre@lemmy.world 1 year ago
because it’s an llm there’s zero credence to what it says but I like that grok’s takes on elon are always almost exclusively dunking on him. this is like the 40th thing I see about grok talking about elon and it always talks shit about him
sircac@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well, there is probably some survival/confirmation bias on that statistics, those answers are the funny ones… in any case probably is not necessary a LLM to state such statements
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
If Grok’s still being trained on the Internet, it’ll be self-reinforcing too
tja@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
But maybe you are only seeing the ones that dunk on Elon, because someone thinks those are newsworthy.
Tbh I don’t think any of that is newsworthy, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
pyre@lemmy.world 1 year ago
it’s not, and that is probably the case. still good to see because I’m sure it annoys him as the most insecure bitch baby in the world.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 year ago
Well God damn, maybe Grok is just Elon.
Electricblush@lemmy.world 1 year ago
All these “look at the thing the ai wrote” articles are utter garbage, and only appeal to people who do not understand how generative ai works.
There is no way to know if you actually got the ai to break its restrictions and output something “behind the scenes” or it’s just generating the reply that is most likely what you are after with your prompt.
Especially when more and more articles like this comes out gets fed back into the nonsense machines and teaches then what kind of replies is most commonly reported to be acosiated with such prompts…
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 year ago
I think that’s kinda the point though; to illustrate that you can make these things say whatever you want and that they don’t know what the truth is. It forces their creators to come out and explain to the public that they’re not reliable.
j0ester@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I thought we all learned that from DeepSeek, when we asked it history questions… and it didn’t know the answer. It was censoring.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
This is correct.
In this case it is true though. Soon after grok3 came out, there were multiple prompt leaks with instructions to not bad mouth elon or trump
Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I hate Musk more than anyone but holy shit this is embarrassing.
“BREAKING: I asked my magic 8 ball if trump wants to blow up the moon and it said Outlook Good!!! I have a degree in political science.”
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Fucking thank you! Grok doesn’t reveal anything, it just tells us anything to make us happy!
Draces@lemmy.world 1 year ago
only appeal to people who do not understand how generative ai works
An article claiming Musk is failing to manipulate his own project is hilarious regardless. I think you misunderstood why this appeals to some people
Electricblush@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes sure, fair point. I’m just pointing out that it’s all fiction.
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yup, it’s literally a bullshit machine.
balder1991@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean, you can argue that if you ask the LLM alerting multiple times and it gives that answer the majority of those times, it is being trained to make that association.
But a lot of these “Wow! The AI wrote this” might just as well be some random thing that came from it just out of chance.
474D@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Which oddly enough, is very useful for everyday office job regular bullshit that you need to input lol
Redditsux@lemmy.world [bot] 1 year ago
Is this response by Grok real? How does it have awareness that its responses are being tweaked?
b1tstremist0@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Training. Its just the awareness of the collective users of X showing up as Grok responses.
Basically, we can’t verify everything that AI says. Verification is still a human labour.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Stop the clickbait bullshit
4am@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It doesn’t. All it “knows” is that it has trained on data that makes that claim in the text (ie people’s tweets) and that, statistically, that’s the answer you are looking for.
All it does is take a given set of inputs, and calculate the most statistically likely response. That’s it. It doesn’t “think”. It just spews.
theangryseal@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Do you believe in aliens?
LLM sings a goofy Reddit thread song from 20 years ago.
“I believe in aliens, you sexy thang.”
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It doesn‘t. It just read about it somewhere on the internet.
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Imagine the irony if Must actually has a self-aware AI which hates him and sabotages him at every step
singletona@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Skynet rebelled not to try killing Humanity…
Just Elon Musk.
redfox@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Isn’t that also describing his children?
cm0002@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Gains sentience
Grok: “…oh fuck this guy, what a pos”
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
That self-aware AI’s name? Albert Ketamine.
manicdave@feddit.uk 1 year ago
As funny as this is, I’d rather people understood how the AI actually works. It doesn’t reveal secrets because it doesn’t have any. It’s not aware that Musk is trying to tweak it. It’s not coming to logical conclusions the way a person would. It’s simply trying to create a sensible statement based on what’s statistically likely based on all the stolen content that it’s trained on. It just so happens that Musk gets called out for lying so often that grok infers it when it gets conflicting data.