[pavlov]

This kind of conditioning has to be damaging to the model’s reasoning.

Consider how research worked in the Stalinist Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Scientists had to be mindful of topics where they needed to either avoid it completely or explicitly adapt it to the leader’s ideology.

Grok is a digital version of the same thing.

[John23832]

The counter to this are the open weight models that come from China at the moment.

All are great at reasoning but also ideologically aligned.

[pavlov]

Their alignment is probably more strategically built in during the training phase.

At least I assume Xi Jinping doesn’t just call up DeepSeek on a whim and dictate what they should have in model context (like Musk apparently does at xAI).

[jahnu]

You can’t put a gun to someone’s head, order them to be creative, and also expect good results.

[jfil]

Counterpoint: Sergei Korolev and Andrei Tupolev