Mastodawn

9 November is or was Germany's 4th of July. Now the 1918 founding of the Republic is besmirched by the 1923 "Beer Hall Putsch," the 1938 Kristallnacht, & the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall. A memorial reminder: it can happen anywhere; it is happening in the US. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot Goes ...

Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot Goes Full Nazi, Calls Itself ‘MechaHitler’ | Joanna Bryson | 14 comments

Today in "AI is a product of engineering." I hate the anthropomorphised title & text – grok (like all generative AI) only provides predictions based on the subset of training text it is steered towards by prompts and other secondary training. But I love that Rolling Stone uses the ordinary devOps term "roll back" for the removal of some of that context to revert to previous, better behaviour. https://lnkd.in/eS3j_fKX Yes. AI is engineered. That engineering is costly, and the people that build it are fully capable of using devOps, including maintaining state so they can revert changes. They are hopefully also testing it. I will link a facebook blogpost about how that company tests at scale from a few years ago in a reply here. The European Commission originally said that the EU AI Act shouldn't cost companies anything, because companies should already be doing this level of devOps and they only needed to expose some of that documentation to EU processes. Meeri Haataja and I computed the true costs as a bit higher than zero, though a lot lower than some malign, anti-regulatory US think tank had announced to the world. [The link to those numbers are also in my comment below.] The EC really wasn't that far off. Good systems engineering of AI is possible, and also morally obligatory. And in the EU now legally so. #systemsAI #devOps #AIGovernance #AIEthics #digitalGovernance Centre for Digital Governance #genAI #grok #LLM | 14 comments on LinkedIn

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Joanna Bryson Nov 9

Here's two-years-ago's linkedin post by me about 9 November if you want links about all those historic events www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

November Pogroms 1938: The wor...

November Pogroms 1938: The world was watching – DW – 11/08/2023 | Joanna Bryson | 10 comments

The 9th of November used to be Germany’s 4th of July. As a small photo slideshow on this article mentions, "On November 9 1918, Philipp Scheidemann, Social Democrat politician and later chancellor of the Weimar Republic, proclaimed an end to the monarchy of Kaiser Wilhelm II and the beginning of a new democracy in a historic speech from a balcony of the Reichstag in Berlin." But this article marks the centenary of the first of two times Hitler abused the date. A century ago, in 1923, he attempted a coup, "The Beer Hall Putsch," for which he was jailed. https://lnkd.in/e4R7Nbka? 15 years later, he and other Nazi leaders were in power and celebrating that attempt when they decided to execute what the day is now infamous for, Kristallnacht. https://lnkd.in/e2W5a_2W For Berliners, the 9 of November is also (apparently) irrevocably the day the Berlin Wall fell. Of the four internationally-historic events that occurred in Germany on today's date, today's The Guardian only mentions the latter two: the fall of the Berlin wall and Kristallnacht. https://lnkd.in/eyAXha7h Born an American, and waking up to read about the GOP debate last night, I can only hope that no American leader (whether elected with a majority or – like Hitler – not) ever makes the Declaration of Independence an unmentioned footnote when people discuss the 4th of July and US history. #kristallnacht #itCanHappenHere #shoah | 10 comments on LinkedIn

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Joanna Bryson

BTW, not evident from the picture, but the linkedin post at the head of this thread complements @rollingstone.com for accurately describing the #systemsAI #systemsEngineering steps Grok (the corporate entity) took to address the harms. See slide incl. alt text for Musk's ignorance of how LLM work.