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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Update from my wife: Oh my God I can't believe that none of Elon's kids like him. Not even the manufactured AI ones. Truly reaching new levels of divorced never believed possible.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago

Musk says: “At times, I think Grok-3 is kind of scary smart.” Grok is just remixing its training data — but a stochastic parrot is still more reality-based than Elon Musk. [Bloomberg, archive]

If someone roasted me such such surgical precision like that, I'd delete my entire Internet presence out of shame. God damn.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

someone said it was Kendrick and Drake, i thought it was two Drakes pointing at each other

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

An actual Kendrick in this case would be Ed Zitron - pointing to just one example, Ed brutally torched Prabhakar Raghavan for ruining Google Search, then danced on his grave after he stepped down to a ceremonial role.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Holy crap I had missed the actual fallout on that front. Tech execs really are not like us, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is especially ironic with all of Elon's claims about making Grok truth seeking. Well, "truth seeking" was probably always code for making an LLM that would parrot Elon's views.

Elon may have failed at making Grok peddle racist conspiracy theories like he wanted, but this shouldn't be taken as proof that LLMs can't be manipulated that way. He probably went with the laziest option possible of directly prompting it as opposed to fine tuning it on racist content or anything more advanced.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I reckon he could pay a bunch of dweebs to do racist reinforcement learning, but then the secret circle becomes so big that it's only a matter of time until there's a leak to the press. Plus, he really hates paying people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

He also wants instant gratification, so taking months to have a team put together a racist data set is a lot of effort for him.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Finally, a non-sexy picture.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

why is this robot not sexy soyweiser

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

I'm GamerSexual, and that my dear Sir is no Gamer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Maybe the robot can finally explain to me how Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack" is actually music and not just somewhat organized noise?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

b-b-but all music is by definition organised noise . . . !

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

it will explain its position with interpretive twerking

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I'm filing suit for copyright infringement AND breach of privacy, clearly they've been training on my personal webcam recordings.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

It was me, I stole all the sexy robots