[pjc50]

Elon got singled out because the changes he was forcing on grok were both conspicuously stupid (grok ranting about boers), racist (boers again), and ultimately ineffective (repeat incidents of him fishing for an answer and getting a different one).

It does actually matter what the values are when trying to do "alignment". Although you are absolutely right that we've not solved for human alignment, putting a real limit on the whole thing.

[a_victorp]

I would also add that Elon got singled out because he was very public about the changes. Other players are not, so it's hard to assess the existence of "corrections" and the reasons behind them

[deaux]

No. If ChatGPT or Claude would suddenly start bringing up Boers randomly they would get "singled out" at least as hard. Probably even more for ChatGPT.

[ufo]

I think what the other poster was trying to say is that the other AI chatbots would be more subtle and their bias would be harder to detect.

[Jensson]

Yeah, they did raise a fuzz when AI made black nazis etc.

[lenkite]

He was public and vocal about it while the other big boys just quietly made the fixes towards their desired political viewpoint. ChatGPT was famous for correcting the anti-transgender bias it had earlier.

Either way, outsourcing opinion to an LLM is dangerous no matter where you fall in the political spectrum.