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by gkoberger 832 days ago
What things do you think a conservative board member would bring that's currently missing? A distaste for big government? Interest in trickle-down economics? Or is this just a weird way of saying OpenAI should be more comfortable indulging in racism and homophobia? Because there's one "right-leaning" major AI (Grok), and as far as I can tell that's the only differentiating feature.
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high_derivative 832 days ago
Just stopping by to say that this type of post is absolutely obnoxious and embarrassing for you.
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freedomben 832 days ago
> Because there's one "right-leaning" major AI (Grok), and as far as I can tell that's the only differentiating feature.

Did you actually look into that or did you just make assumptions?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/23/grok-ai...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/12/10/elon-musks...

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gkoberger 832 days ago
From the article you posted: "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."

Silly me for taking Elon at his word

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freedomben 832 days ago
> Silly me for taking Elon at his word

I really don't mean to dog pile, but this seems wrong in two ways. First he never said Grok would be right-wing. In fact he promised neutrality, so I don't think you were "taking Elon at his word" I think you were taking somebody else at their word about Elon's word. If Elon did say Grok would be right-wing, I would very much like to know so if you know of a source, please share.

Second, it really is unwise at best to "take Elon at his word". For example, Elon has been saying Tesla would have full self driving for years. He tends to make very grand aspiration promises/declarations that aren't super grounded in reality. So yeah, if Elon says "Grok will be perfectly neutral/centrist" or even "Grok will be right wing" if you care at all about being accurate then you really need to check before assuming it's true. "Trust but verify" would be the minimum I would give to Elon.

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gkoberger 832 days ago
You're right; I almost used the phrases "woke"/"non-woke" since those are the words Elon uses [1], but given how much I hate that vague phrasing ("woke" has become a catch-all for things Elon/etc dislike) I skipped it.

I also should have said "Because there's one AI led by a "right-leaning" creator", not that the AI itself is right-leaning.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1737704128220934311

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