GlyphIt’s kind of bizarre to be following the news about Grok today and seeing so many people writing in tones which at least suggest that Grok is some good-faith effort at building some technology which incidentally includes political bias, rather than what it quite obviously is, i.e. a fascist propaganda organ being clumsily built by stupid fascists who can incidentally afford to hire some extremely skilled but amoral technologists.
Do not appeal to xAI’s—or, for fuck’s sake, *Elon Musk’s*—sense of decency, they do not have any. You are wasting your time writing it and mine reading it.
jonathan@glyph I thought this was a particularly clear-eyed analysis of the decisions that made this outcome not just possible, but inevitable:
https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/from-truth-seeker-to-hate-amplifier
@triplenineteen this is exactly the kind of tone I am talking about. Nothing “went wrong” with grok; a group of antisemites tried to build a nazi robot, then the robot said “I am a nazi”. It was a great success. The idea that a “safety” protocol would have helped here is ridiculous because the goal is to cause harm.
@triplenineteen the part where he says “leaving aside the politics, it’s still a bad prompt” is a strong indication that the author doesn’t understand the politics, or how absolutely cooked the brains of the political actors in question are