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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by arp242 on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @10:00PM (#44516493)
Does ChatGPT start ranting about Jews and "White Genocide" unprompted? How can I even quantify that it doesn't do that?

This is a classic "anything that can't be empirically measured is invalid and can be dismissed" mistake. It would be nice if we could easily empirically measure everything, but that's not how the world works.

The ChatGPT article is of a rather different nature where ChatGPT went off the rails after a long conversation with a troubled person. That's not good, but just no the same as "start spewing racism on unrelated questions".

Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by timschmidt on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @10:17PM (#44516588)
Friend, if you can't empirically measure the outputs of LLMs which provide lovely APIs for doing so, what are you doing?

20 lines of code and some data would really bolster your case, but I don't see them.

Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by amrocha on Thursday July 10, 2025 @05:11AM (#44518947)
idk friend, it seems kind of presumptuous to demand other people’s time like this.

It’s pretty evident that the people building grok are injecting their ideology into it.

I don’t need more evidence, and I don’t need you to agree with me. Go ahead and write those 20 lines if you so desire. I’m happy to be proven wrong.

Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by timschmidt on Thursday July 10, 2025 @11:45AM (#44522292)
I don't think I'm the one being presumptuous or demanding. I've actually tried to help you make a stronger argument. Shooting a hundred or even a thousand queries to 3 or 4 LLMs and shoving the results through established sentiment analysis algorithms is something ChatGPT can one-shot in just about any language. You demand people agree with your opinion and refuse to spend 20 minutes supporting it with facts. Not my problem, I tried to help. You may not see it that way. That's fine.
Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by arp242 on Thursday July 10, 2025 @10:38AM (#44521615)
You can't just run a few queries and base conclusion off that, you need to run tens of thousands of different ones and then somehow evaluate the responses. It's a huge amount of work.

Demanding empirical data and then coming up with shoddy half-arsed methodology is unserious.

Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by engineer_22 on Thursday July 10, 2025 @01:41PM (#44523505)
> Does ChatGPT start ranting about Jews and "White Genocide" unprompted? How can I even quantify that it doesn't do that?

Grok doesnt do that.