[ajross]

Whataboutist false equivalence alert:

> Also, it's funny that Elon gets singled out for mandating changes on what the AI is allowed to say when all the other players in the field do the same thing.

"All the other players" aren't deliberately tuning their AI to reflect specific political ideology, nor are all the other players producing Nazi gaffes or racist rhetoric as a result of routine tuning[1].

Yes, it's true that AI is going to reflect its internal prompt engineering and training data, and that's going to be subject to bias on the part of the engineers who produced and curated it. That's not remotely the same thing as deliberately producing an ideological chat engine.

[1] It's also worth pointing out that grok has gotten objectively much worse at political content after all this muckery. It used to be a pretty reasonable fact check and worth reading. Now it tends to disappear on anything political, and where it shows up it's either doing the most limited/bland fact check or engaging in what amounts to spin.

[Duwensatzaj]

> All the other players" aren't deliberately tuning their AI to reflect specific political ideology

Google did something similar if not quite as offensive.

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/18/1239107313/google-races-to-fi...

[ajross]

They didn't, though? The multiracial founding fathers thing was a side effect of what one assumes is pretty normal prompt engineering. Marketing departments everywhere have rules and standards designed to prevent racial discrimination, and this looks like "make sure we have a reasonable mix of ethnicities in our artwork" in practice. That's surely "bias", like I said, but it's not deliberate political ideology. No one said[1] "we need to retcon the racial makeup of 18th century America", it was just a mistake.

[1] Or if they did, it's surely not attested. I invite links if you have them.

[blell]

Of course "make sure we have a reasonable mix of ethnicities in our artwork" is a deliberate political ideology.

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> All the other players" aren't deliberately tuning their AI to reflect specific political ideology

Citation needed