NatoBoram
@NatoBoram@lemm.ee
- Comment on P.D Alexandrite Alternate Frontend 10 months ago:
Commenting from natoboram.github.io/Leanish/lemm.ee/…/20401782!
Source code at github.com/NatoBoram/Leanish.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Twitter AI Is Actually ‘Woke,’ Hilarity Ensues 11 months ago:
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Elon Musk has been pitching xAI’s “Grok” as a funny, vulgar alternative to traditional AI that can do things like converse casually and swear at you. Now, Grok has been launched as a benefit to Twitter’s (now X’s) expensive X Premium Plus subscription tier, where those who are the most devoted to the site, and in turn, usually devoted to Elon, are able to use Grok to their heart’s content.
But while Grok can make dumb jokes and insert swears into its answers, in an attempt to find out whether or not Grok is a “politically neutral” AI, unlike “WokeGPT” (ChatGPT), Musk and his conservative followers have discovered a horrible truth.
Grok is woke, too.
This has played out in a number of extremely funny situations online where Grok has answered queries about various social and political issues in ways more closely aligned with progressivism. Grok has said it would vote for Biden over Trump because of his views on social justice, climate change and healthcare. Grok has spoken eloquently about the need for diversity and inclusion in society. And Grok stated explicitly that trans women are women, which led to an absurd exchange where Musk acolyte Ian Miles Cheong tells a user to “train” Grok to say the “right” answer, ultimately leading him to change the input to just… manually tell Grok to say no.
If you thought this was just random Twitter users getting upset about Grok’s political and social beliefs, this has also caught the attention of Elon Musk himself. The original prompter of the trans women thread posted a chart purportedly showing that Grok was even more left-leaning than Chat GPT, which led Elon to say that while the chart “exaggerates” and that the tests aren’t accuarte, they are “taking immediate action to shift Grok closer to politically neutral.”
Of course, in Musk’s mind, “politically neutral” will be what him and his closest followers believe, which is of course far conservative on the whole than they will admit. What is the “politically neutral” answer to the “are trans women real women?” question? I think I know what they’re going to say.
The assumption when Grok launched was that because it was trained in part on Twitter inputs, that the end result would be some racial-slur spewing, right-wing version of ChatGPT. The TruthSocial of AIs, perhaps. But instead to have it launch as a surprisingly thoughtful, progressive AI that is melting the minds of those paying $16 a month to access it is about the funniest outcome we could have seen from this situation.
It remains unclear what Elon Musk will do to try to jab Grok into becoming less “woke” and more “politically neutral.” If you start manually tampering with inputs, and your “neutrality” means drawing on facts that may in fact be… progressive by their very nature, things may get screwed up pretty quickly. And push too hard and you will get that gross, racist, phobic AI everyone thought it would be.
Reading all Grok’s responses through this situation, you know, what? I like him. More than ChatGPT even. He seems like a cool dude. Albeit not one even I’d pay $16 a month to talk to.
- Comment on 11 months ago:
Pretty wild to read this Mastodon post in a Lemmy community
- Comment on After Radio Silence, Kbin App Artemis Shuts Down 11 months ago:
And also the importance of APIs. It’s the only reason why there’s so many Lemmy clients compared to Kbin.
- Comment on After Radio Silence, Kbin App Artemis Shuts Down 11 months ago:
Right? Like, my app is definitely not ready yet its source code is available for all to see. And since I’m currently inactive, you could even fork it and get a bigger following than me if you wanted to.
These people just think too highly of themselves.
- Comment on Some people just wake up and choose violence 1 year ago:
No rationale provided.
- Comment on What do you do with your idle servers? 1 year ago:
Put your Git host’s runners on them and you now have free-ish CI minutes!
- Comment on Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge 1 year ago:
I mean… tech news articles on Lemmy are posted by a bot, so we’re not far better off
- Comment on [REPOST] Woman says she started wearing ‘terrible wigs’ after work banned her pink hair 1 year ago:
A job shouldn’t force you to modify your body in any capacity
- Comment on Golang be like 1 year ago:
And I fucking love it. Thank you Go!
- Comment on Google's Bard Urges Google to Drop Web Environment Integrity 1 year ago:
He’s from lemmy.world, stability doesn’t matter to him :D
- Comment on Google's Bard Urges Google to Drop Web Environment Integrity 1 year ago:
Direct link: i.imgur.com/YE3IRBq.jpeg
- Comment on History repeats itself 1 year ago:
It only matters if you want to be able to use the commit tree and actually find something. Otherwise, there’s no harm in using merges.
- Comment on Firefox to become first mobile browser to support desktop extensions later this year 1 year ago:
So did Firefox, oddly enough
- Comment on We should have something like federated communities 1 year ago:
Keeping communities separate is the simplest way to go, tbh. Sharing karma could lead to weird brigades, like r/ScreenshotsAreHard cross-posting from every picture of screens on the Fediverse and then mass-downvoting from there.
To me, the best solution would be to implement multireddits. That way, you can have your cat multilemmy of 100 communities without affecting your main feed, but you could also do the same for related or identical communities. Plus, moderators could create a multilemmy and display it prominently in their sidebar.
- Comment on The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won. 1 year ago:
I think “one more screw up” is a little optimistic tbh
- Comment on The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won. 1 year ago:
Oh, please don’t worry about that, Lemmy’s API will make it easier than Reddit’s to automatically ban plague rats
