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[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 75 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't call him lean and wiry, but that's not an unreasonable body for his age. Boy needs to get some sun, of course. Preferably by being launched into it.

Forcing his pet AI to compliment him is an incredibly weak move.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Got that Joe rogan HGH Gut.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Is that what causes it? TIL

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The alarming part is that such custom response to queries can be crafted into LLMs, further obfuscating the accuracy of anything an LLM produces. It is exactly the kind of mass manipulation that authoritarians have wet dreams about. This case is obvious but they all won't be and how would an average user ever know the difference? They won't. They'll integrate falsehoods into their worldview and whichever LLM a group favours will show this manipulation in the aggregate behavior of the userbase.

Imagine a Donald Trump having that level of sophistication when he built up his Maga cult. Disinformation is already a big problem and they want these LLMs in schools for the purpose of brainwashing children in subtle and not so subtle ways toward whatever beleifs benefit the LLMs owners, not the children or the future of the nation.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I guess the silver lining is that no matter how much they try to lock down these prompts it always seems to eventually slip up and go back to answering """truthfully''"" :

...or it goes full ooga-booga like the "Mechahitler" incident

[–] DrFunkenstein@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It appears that the flattery only happens in the twitter version of grok, not grok.com This makes me think that instead of somehow retraining the whole AI to flatter him, it's just lazily adding something like

If prompt.contains("Musk") or prompt.contains("Elon") Prompt.add("Make sure your response is flattering of Musk's Genius")

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

Literally sounds like every Internet argument with a neck-beard.

Can someone redo the grok logo with a neck-beard and fedora?

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Wow.

I was hopping on here to say that all LLM's are programmed to flatter the user, but that is next-level.

Especially the part about his physique. The man looks like a walking plate of noodles.

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 15 points 2 months ago

Extremely and sincerely pathetic.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago

He really is the world's saddest boy

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 months ago

This is so pathetic it's not even funny to laugh at. What a sad imitation of a cartoon villain.

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wanna know if they did this in RLHF, the system prompt, or with RAG. Each comes with a unique set of sad implications.

[–] CatsPajamas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

Lmao if they figured out super-alignment and it's for this

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Lol, dude couldn't even finish his degree in Physics without daddy intervening with a big donation to the school. So he bought his degree 2 years after he left the school because he kept lying that he had the degree.

If that is genius, then the turd I shit out this morning is one too when I buy it a degree in astrophysics.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

He didn't program shit

[–] FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

while family photos and statements show genuine engagement with his children

That's the most lizard-y shit I've read

[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Yes, shitting on his family on twitter is genuine engagement with his children.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

How sad and pathetic that you're so devoid of genuine friendship and intimacy that you have to burn a power plant's worth of energy just to make your imaginary friend "real".

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

he does enough ketamine to make it feel real

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Mecha-Mooch