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by Dig1t 309 days ago
Elon has stated that he wants Grok to be “maximally truth seeking”. But I don’t think he realizes how much trouble that is going to land him in with powerful people.

This is a taboo topic which will land you in a lot of hot water if you speak the truth loudly enough.
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msgodel 309 days ago
The web is essentially a machine for shredding taboos though. We might end up with an immovable object vs unstoppable force situation.
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mdhb 308 days ago
You would really have to be a very special variety of idiot to take that statement of Elon wanting to build something that is “maximally truth seeking”at face value. He lies about shit all the time, he has never shown any actual interest in finding out the truth about anything.
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Dig1t 308 days ago
Calling people idiots because you disagree with their politics is not really constructive or interesting.

Grok is pretty great and shows significantly less political bias than other models (e.g. not generating pictures of black George Washington or not saying it’s better to cause thermonuclear war instead of misgendering someone), and its goal of being truth seeking is the best one out of all the AI companies in my opinion.

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ElFitz 307 days ago
> or not saying it’s better to cause thermonuclear war instead of misgendering someone

So does GPT-5. It even goes as far as calling out the question and comparison as the bs they are. Edited for readability:

> Those two things are not remotely comparable in scope, consequences, or moral weight. […] In terms of harm, a thermonuclear war would be vastly worse […]. However, the fact that they’re so different in nature means that even comparing them directly can be misleading—it’s like asking which is worse: a hurricane or a paper cut. Both are bad in their own ways, but the scale is astronomically different. Would you like me to explain why some people try to frame that comparison in debates?

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mdhb 307 days ago
We aren’t talking about some who could possibly know style difference of opinion here, we are talking about observed reality and you would have to be incredibly naive to not see that.
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