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Elon accidentally creates an AI that goes out of its way not to be racist (nitter.net)

submitted 11 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] peanuts4life@beehaw.org 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This might sound stupid, but this ai's output sounds a lot like gpt. In fact, if you just use the API, gpt doesn't really mind answering toxic or bad questions, so long as the output didn't violate thier rules.

I'm not saying Elon is using open ai, but maybe they've trained on gpt-4 output?

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

They did.

The issue here is that the web is full of ChatGPT outputs, so we accidentally picked up some of them when we trained Grok on a large amount of web data. This was a huge surprise to us when we first noticed it.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 11 months ago

How was that a surprise to anyone? I'd wager indiscriminately scraping the web at this point will net you more words of GPT output than, for instance, Douglas Adams books.

[–] locallynonlinear@awful.systems 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Elon: "I created OpenAI! It only exists because of me!" Also Elon: "I created this new AI, which I copied from OpenAI, because it was... mine all along?"

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 11 months ago

i mean, he found~~ed~~ Twitter

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

https://nitter.net/ibab_ml/status/1733558576982155274

edit: oh uh @blakestacey's post wasn't showing for some reason. i'll leave my post up for screenshot convenience