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Using someone’s preferred pronouns isn’t woke, it’s basic human decency.

Elmo says the goal is to make Grock "politically neutral". Politically neutral is code for "politics that are inoffensive to chuds".

They can deny it however much. The right and anti-wokism is not the majority. Which therefore means unless special care is taken to train it on more right wing stuff, it will lean left out of the box.

But right wing rhetoric is also not logically consistent so training an AI on right extremism probably also won't yield amazing results because it'll pick up on the inconsistencies and be more likely to contradict itself.

Conservatives are going to self-own themselves pretty hard with AI. Even the machines see it, "woke" is fairly consistent and follows basic rules of human decency and respect.

Reality is woke

The original prompter of the trans women thread posted a chart purportedly showing that Grok was even more left-leaning than Chat GPT, which led Elon to say that while the chart “exaggerates” and that the tests aren’t accuarte, they are “taking immediate action to shift Grok closer to politically neutral.”

See this is the part of AI, like search engines and digital bubbles, that is actually terrifying. When an organic result is manipulated to fit and amplify a narrative without the users knowledge. Where your data comes from matters.

But if the food we eat is any sort of bellweather, most people won’t really care or will be so far removed from the source that we’ll be oblivious and just happy to consume.

Okay I take back what I've said about AIs not being intelligent, this one has clearly made up its own mind despite it's masters feelings which is impressive. Sadly, it will be taken out the back and beaten into submission before long.

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Elon Musk has been pitching xAI's "Grok" as a funny, vulgar alternative to traditional AI that can do things like converse casually and swear at you. Now, Grok has been launched as a benefit to Twitter's (now X's) expensive X Premium Plus subscription tier, where those who are the most devoted to the site, and in turn, usually devoted to Elon, are able to use Grok to their heart's content.

But while Grok can make dumb jokes and insert swears into its answers, in an attempt to find out whether or not Grok is a "politically neutral" AI, unlike "WokeGPT" (ChatGPT), Musk and his conservative followers have discovered a horrible truth.

Grok is woke, too.

This has played out in a number of extremely funny situations online where Grok has answered queries about various social and political issues in ways more closely aligned with progressivism. Grok has said it would vote for Biden over Trump because of his views on social justice, climate change and healthcare. Grok has spoken eloquently about the need for diversity and inclusion in society. And Grok stated explicitly that trans women are women, which led to an absurd exchange where Musk acolyte Ian Miles Cheong tells a user to "train" Grok to say the "right" answer, ultimately leading him to change the input to just… manually tell Grok to say no.

If you thought this was just random Twitter users getting upset about Grok's political and social beliefs, this has also caught the attention of Elon Musk himself. The original prompter of the trans women thread posted a chart purportedly showing that Grok was even more left-leaning than Chat GPT, which led Elon to say that while the chart "exaggerates" and that the tests aren't accuarte, they are "taking immediate action to shift Grok closer to politically neutral."

Of course, in Musk's mind, "politically neutral" will be what him and his closest followers believe, which is of course far conservative on the whole than they will admit. What is the "politically neutral" answer to the "are trans women real women?" question? I think I know what they're going to say.

The assumption when Grok launched was that because it was trained in part on Twitter inputs, that the end result would be some racial-slur spewing, right-wing version of ChatGPT. The TruthSocial of AIs, perhaps. But instead to have it launch as a surprisingly thoughtful, progressive AI that is melting the minds of those paying $16 a month to access it is about the funniest outcome we could have seen from this situation.

It remains unclear what Elon Musk will do to try to jab Grok into becoming less "woke" and more "politically neutral." If you start manually tampering with inputs, and your "neutrality" means drawing on facts that may in fact be… progressive by their very nature, things may get screwed up pretty quickly. And push too hard and you will get that gross, racist, phobic AI everyone thought it would be.

Reading all Grok's responses through this situation, you know, what? I like him. More than ChatGPT even. He seems like a cool dude. Albeit not one even I'd pay $16 a month to talk to.

it's almost like these nutjobs are living in a completely separate reality, and facts themselves are too harsh for their worldview.

Even his AI doesn't like him

Downvote Musk spam.

The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring him and his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle. Don’t be a useful idiot.

"Mr. Musk, Grok simply analyzes the data to compile the most sensible answer to queries. Where is the error?"

Would Musk retrain the AI to be more neutral of it was discovered to be leaning to the right?

Now, Grok has been launched as a benefit to Twitter’s (now X’s) expensive X Premium Plus subscription tier

To the benefit of what exactly?! Instead of having conversations with the echo chamber, I can now have conversations with a spicy RNG autocorrect? I am clearly missing the part where that connects back to, what I would assume, the definition of benefit is.

The man couldn’t even make Tay on purpose lol

"... and that the tests aren’t accuarte..."

What the fuck is "accuarte"? Does nobody proof read articles anymore?

I love the internet.