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Re: xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure

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Effective Altruism is still great, and never stopped being great. Guilt does not transfer by association in this way.

There's definitely _something_ there, but, as with all philosophies, the internet has taken it and run with it to a fairly absurd degree, to the point where, for many adherents, it's basically a religion.

Re: xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure

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Except someone clearly wanted Grok to talk about some very specific South African phrases and events , not just “remove bias” in the general sense.

That's precisely how the arithmetic theory of bias operates. That bias doesn't actually work that way is why applying it causes such ridiculous outcomes.

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Re: xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure

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HN crowd is ... mixed, it's perhaps the one last true melting pot we have on the Internet. A curse and a blessing, if you ask me. You got truly anything here. Europeans that in general tend to lean more towards "democratic socialism" and its various offshoots, American libertarians (which have a large intersection with Musk fanboys), a bunch of extremely rich startup founders, American progressives, conservatives of…

Interesting how you put "hamas apologists" and not pro-palestinians next to Zionists. How would you have felt if it was written "pro-palestinains and genocide-apologists"?

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Re: xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure

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White genocide and holocaust denial.

That was the one I was aware of. Was there another incident separate from that?

While I'm sure the same rogue "employee" was responsible for both, they are separate incidents. Musk's AI service was pushing "white genocide" lies as answers to unrelated prompts. It was only spouting holocaust denial lies when asked directly.

Re: xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure

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Not sure why Microsoft would be fine with the reputational damage of dealing with Elon, but here we are.

Lmfao. Why would anyone care about Musk's politics when using Azure + Grok. If it's good for the job, it's good for the job.

Pushing objectively false answers should render an AI doodad bad for the job, no?

Re: xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure

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Interesting how you put "hamas apologists" and not pro-palestinians next to Zionists. How would you have felt if it was written "pro-palestinains and genocide-apologists"?

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> I have yet to meet any "pro-palestinian" that doesn't devolve into "rape is resistance"

> In contrast, all Zionists I know utterly despise Netanyahu and his far-right government.

Oh dear

As it happens, I know plenty of people who don't think the people in Gaza should be genocided and none of them support rape.

Many of the self-labelled Zionists I know support Bibi and think Gaza should be razed to the ground.

Go figure!

Re: xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure

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Lmfao. Why would anyone care about Musk's politics when using Azure + Grok. If it's good for the job, it's good for the job.

Could say the same about Tesla cars, yet they don't sell that well any more.

Teslas have always been objectively bad cars. Inconsistent panel gaps, bad paint from the factory, poor build quality, etc. The car folks have always known this. It’s taken elons politics for tech folks to realize.

Re: xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure

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Be careful saying things like that or you'll get [flagged] - discussion of what seemed an incredibly important subject is forbidden on here it seems.

Hilarious that you correctly predicted this being flagged. Forbidden topic on HN it seems.

Re: xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure

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Has any AI company not been caught doing this? Grok is just doing it in the opposite direction. I hate it too, but let's not pretend we don't know what's going on here.

Actually the first versions of Grok had the same "left leaning" bias as other models since it turns out that bias is in the data that everyone is using to train on), so if Grok is now more right leaning it is because they have deliberately manipulated it to be so. This also begs the question, does it make sense to call something a "bias" when that is the majority view (i.e. reflected in bulk of training data) ?

Does it make sense to call something “the majority view” when most news websites shut down their comment sections a decade ago so that you can’t see what other readers really think?
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