Lol. It already happened again in New Mexico...
You know, this has drastically increased my respect for meteorologists. I always thought they were convenient, but I generally just look outside for my weather
And I mean, I knew they were important for hurricanes and such... But holy shit, a few months after the cuts and rainstorms are killing dozens
I'm not sure you get the problem here
You can talk to an llm at any moment of any day. They will engage with you endlessly. They're becoming the front end for search, and at some point might become the primary interface for your device
It's a huge problem if they manage to make it a propoganda tool, and that's the goal here
Remind them what, that Trump says it's good? There's nothing to be gained there
No, just document it. Report on it. Ask the Democrats what they're doing to stop it. Challenge Republicans to make them comment about the horrors to come on record
But the white house? They'll add nothing of value, better to keep asking the questions that make them nervous
I mean... It is genuinely hard to work for someone not evil. Let's say you're an AI engineer... Meta is probably the best because most of the non-corporate LLMs flow from there... But they're also using it to build personalized echo chambers, which is horrible
OpenAI is at the top and Microsoft has shown every inclination to make it a monopoly, so I could understand wanting to work on competitors
You could go smaller and work somewhere like anthropic, but then you don't have the resources to be on the cutting edge (depending on your specialty)
I blame people who buy Teslas more than those who work at Tesla at this point. Especially when they slow walk the bad things...I mean, Twitter would probably be less Nazi if more talent stayed onboard to resist institutionally
You can change jobs if the new one also sponsors you, and it's my understanding that xAI tapped people from Tesla, but I might be wrong about that
Anyways, what's happening sure looks like malicious compliance to me... It's really not that hard to get an AI to list far right talking points, it's just hard to bake it into the model
So you have people that made a pretty good model, but also can't figure out basic AI infrastructure? I find that very hard to believe
I'm not. What would you do in this situation? Let's throw in that you're on a visa, so you can't just quit
I'd maliciously comply.
You want access to the prompt? Here you go boss man. You want grok to share your Nazi views? Sorry sir, we'll have to totally start over with training data. ~~Or we could use a modified RAG~~
You want help with the prompt? Sure boss man, what do you want it to do? Oh, you want it to notice Jewish names? Sure boss man, I don't know what you mean by that, but now it keeps saying it's "noticing". That's weird
Oh, you want to fine-tune it on your tweets? Sure thing boss man... Oh, would you look at that, it thinks it's you. Nothing can be done about that, it's too much data from one source. Well, should we roll it back boss man? Your call
I'd just keep playing this game... Elon isn't going to come out and say "I want grok to be a Nazi", and I'm not going to read between the lines for him. I'm not going to come up with ideas to solve the problem, I'm going to let Elon's ego direct the course and throw out "we've designed grok to seek truth over all else" as much as possible
Do they? Because every time I've looked at the issue, it seems like they manufactured a crisis out of a small number of unrelated home invasions
Why? They're going to brag about it and call the victims criminals
I literally do that. With real world customers, and real world payments and real world consequences running through the system, all the time.
I live in fear.
It's a tool, our job is to collect tools in our toolbox and use them appropriately
TDD is great for when you want a really, really tight interface - whether it's your exposed surface to customers or you've got a lot of people working on something, it makes sense to write the standard and code to it, instead of documenting after the fact
Otherwise... Well, in practice it's an idiot proof methodology. That's useful, but it is a lot of work
It's the gush gallop, when those kind of intellectually dishonest assholes find themselves in a bad position, they start throwing shit out rapid fire, and then they go "so really, we're both right, but actually you're wrong"
You can't refute the facts, because they're not real. If you try to nail them down on one, they'll concede an infinite amount of points and make new ones
The only way to win is to steal the momentum and nail them on questions they can't answer on camera, then humiliate them
Which is no kind of way to exchange ideas, but that's not what they're there for
Come on, resistance matters. Even if it's just slowing it down slightly, it affects people in very real ways
It's ok to take the little wins