[dagmx]

The “true nature of the universe” bit is that Elon believes that competing LLMs are too neutered because they disallow certain terms etc. (his words are much more politically charged and I do not agree with his take on this and many other things)

Therefore he believes that Grok can be an LLM trained on the voices of the people using his alleged free speech platform:X.

[smileybarry]

For context, it should be noted that his platform disallows certain terms too, but sometimes worse (in a way).

For example: saying “cis” or “cisgender” flags your post as abusive and limits visibility. Saying the 6-letter (or 3-letter) f-slur does not.

[darksaints]

Elon’s vision of free speech is a world where you can say anything you want as long as it isn’t mean towards Elon or Alt-right ideology. Which is actually pretty hilarious to think about in the context of a training dataset for a generative model…it’s literally gonna be a bullshit generator.

[travoc]

Are you not able to find mean things about Elon or alt-right people on Twitter? How hard did you look?

[sangnoir]

Is the assumption here is that we can somehow understand the nature of the universe if we stop censoring the common man and have an unmuzzled LLM that talks like him instead of the Bay Area AI elites? My uneducated guess is well learn more about the true nature of the common clay^w man.

[ben_w]

I agree this appears to be Musk's opinion of LLMs in particular.

However, as Musk has already got AI in his cars and was interested in the topic well before LLMs (founding investor in OpenAI when they were doing reinforcement learning), I'd be extremely disappointed if he had forgotten all of that in the current LLM-gold-rush.

(That's not a "no"; he's disappointed before).