Re:Grok 4 Launch [video]
by wordofx on Thursday July 10, 2025 @01:24AM
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xAI has over 1000 employees. If he was polluting the model we would know about.
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Who was responsible for the "kill the Boer" dreck? Were they disciplined? Did they get fired? Why don't we know that?
Re:Grok 4 Launch [video]
by simondotau on Thursday July 10, 2025 @08:31AM
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I think it's far more likely there are a tiny handful of mid-tier unhinged sycophants among those 1000 employees who think that pleasing Elon means polluting the model to make Grok an unhinged sycophant, because that's what an unhinged sycophant would think to do.
Elon explicitly ordering this? Press X to doubt.
If?
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1936493967320953090
He seems pretty open about it.