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Re:Grok Code Fast 1 by simianwords on Friday August 29, 2025 @03:55PM (#45068655)
What’s their incentive to do this? What do they gain by making a partisan model instead of one that just works well?
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Re:Grok Code Fast 1 by pennomi on Friday August 29, 2025 @04:39PM (#45069140)
You really can’t think of ANY advantage to becoming a perfected propaganda machine? Not one?
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Re:Grok Code Fast 1 by simianwords on Friday August 29, 2025 @04:43PM (#45069175)
Enlighten me. How would a partisan coding model help.
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Re:Grok Code Fast 1 by ben_w on Friday August 29, 2025 @06:24PM (#45070093)
Competence in every field is correlated for LLMs. Better coding probably means more competent rhetoric and more competent Swahili-Latin translation. But only "probably", the causation is being argued about.
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