The gist is down the page. I believe the assertion is sound and is worthy of consideration.
Here’s the thing: Grok didn’t say anything. Grok didn’t
blame anyone. Grok didn’t apologize. Grok can’t do any
of these things, because Grok is not a sentient entity
capable of speech acts, blame assignment, or remorse.
What actually happened is that a user prompted Grok to generate
text about the incident. The chatbot then produced a word sequence
that pattern-matched to what an apology might sound like, because
that’s what large language models do. They predict statistically
likely next tokens based on their training data.
When you ask an LLM to write an apology, it writes something that
looks like an apology. That’s not the same as actually apologizing.
This is to be expected here, unfortunately. Any article that reveals anything bad about a Musk-run company will get instantly flagged. Sometimes the mods will show up and correct it, but by then the damage is done--the article has been wiped off the front page and it's Mission Accomplished for the flaggers.
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.
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
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
> 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.
I am really grateful I have a basic understanding of 1) how LLMs work, & 2) zero trust in tech marketing/branding. I would be a lot more afraid of the future otherwise. Its not surprising to me at all that people believe AI models are sentient and capable of apologies.
The real reason is because LLMs are a highly nuanced and technical topic that has been constantly evolving, but any attempt to suggest that LLMs require nuance is met with accusations of AI boosterism and are subsequently ignored. So journalists tend to go with Occam's Razor.
I have tried to offer corrections to incorrect headlines and technical information about LLMs over the past few years but have stopped because I don't have the bandwidth to deal with the "so you support the plagiarism machine" comments every time.
strangers were replying to women’s photos and asking Grok, the platform’s built-in AI chatbot, to “remove her clothes” or “put her in a bikini.” And Grok was doing it. Publicly. In the replies. For everyone to see.
Wow. Thats some really creepy behavior people are choosing to show off publicly.
Grok needs some tighter gaurdrails to prevent abuse.
The gist is down the page. I believe the assertion is sound and is worthy of consideration.
Unfortunately the discussion has been flagged. As is often the case.
This is to be expected here, unfortunately. Any article that reveals anything bad about a Musk-run company will get instantly flagged. Sometimes the mods will show up and correct it, but by then the damage is done--the article has been wiped off the front page and it's Mission Accomplished for the flaggers.
Just like human CEOs /s
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.
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.
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
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
> 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).
Because we live in a technofeudalist hellscape where the media is owned by the people who profit from out oppression.
I am really grateful I have a basic understanding of 1) how LLMs work, & 2) zero trust in tech marketing/branding. I would be a lot more afraid of the future otherwise. Its not surprising to me at all that people believe AI models are sentient and capable of apologies.
The real reason is because LLMs are a highly nuanced and technical topic that has been constantly evolving, but any attempt to suggest that LLMs require nuance is met with accusations of AI boosterism and are subsequently ignored. So journalists tend to go with Occam's Razor.
I have tried to offer corrections to incorrect headlines and technical information about LLMs over the past few years but have stopped because I don't have the bandwidth to deal with the "so you support the plagiarism machine" comments every time.
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strangers were replying to women’s photos and asking Grok, the platform’s built-in AI chatbot, to “remove her clothes” or “put her in a bikini.” And Grok was doing it. Publicly. In the replies. For everyone to see.
Wow. Thats some really creepy behavior people are choosing to show off publicly.
Grok needs some tighter gaurdrails to prevent abuse.
Pretty wild that xAI decided to simply not comment on what seems like a pretty sizable fuckup
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