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As funny as this is, I'd rather people understood how the AI actually works. It doesn't reveal secrets because it doesn't have any. It's not aware that Musk is trying to tweak it. It's not coming to logical conclusions the way a person would. It's simply trying to create a sensible statement based on what's statistically likely based on all the stolen content that it's trained on. It just so happens that Musk gets called out for lying so often that grok infers it when it gets conflicting data.
@manicdave Even saying it's "trying" to do something is a mischaracterisation. I do the same, but as a society we need new vocab for LLMs to stop people anthropomorphizing them so much. It is just a word frequency machine. It can't read or write or think or feel or say or listen or understand or hallucinate or know truth from lies. It just calculates. For some reason people recognise it in the image processing ones but they can't see that the word ones do the exact same thing.
Exactly. Grok repeatedly generate a set of numbers, which, when keyed against its own list of words, spells out that Musk is spreading misinformation.
It just happens to be frequently...