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Re:Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effor... by pavlov on Saturday March 14, 2026 @05:27AM (#47374859)
This kind of conditioning has to be damaging to the model’s reasoning.

Consider how research worked in the Stalinist Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Scientists had to be mindful of topics where they needed to either avoid it completely or explicitly adapt it to the leader’s ideology.

Grok is a digital version of the same thing.

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Re:Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effor... by John23832 on Saturday March 14, 2026 @08:13AM (#47375874)
The counter to this are the open weight models that come from China at the moment.

All are great at reasoning but also ideologically aligned.

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Re:Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effor... by pavlov on Saturday March 14, 2026 @09:02AM (#47376258)
Their alignment is probably more strategically built in during the training phase.

At least I assume Xi Jinping doesn’t just call up DeepSeek on a whim and dictate what they should have in model context (like Musk apparently does at xAI).

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Re:Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effor... by jahnu on Saturday March 14, 2026 @08:48AM (#47376132)
You can’t put a gun to someone’s head, order them to be creative, and also expect good results.
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Re:Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effor... by jfil on Saturday March 14, 2026 @07:12PM (#47382304)
Counterpoint: Sergei Korolev and Andrei Tupolev
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