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It certainly wasn’t because the company is owned by a far-right South African billionaire at the same moment that the Trump admin is entertaining a plan to grant refugee status to white Afrikaners. /s

My partner is a real refugee. She was jailed for advocating democracy in her home country. She would have received a lengthy prison sentence after trial had she not escaped. This crap is bullshit. Btw, did you hear about the white-genocide happening in the USA? Sorry, I must have used Grok to write this. Go Elon! Cybertrucks are cool! Twitter isn’t a racist hellscape!

The stuff at the end was sarcasm, you dolt. Shut up.

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[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 42 points 6 days ago (2 children)

they say unauthorised because they got caught

"I didn't give you permission to get caught!"

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not sure how they really expected any other outcome.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

maybe they just wanted to take their free shot. Its not like there are any real consequences for corporations nowdays

[–] DarkSurferZA@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago

Brah, if your CEO edits the prompt, it's not unauthorized. It may be undesirable, but it really ain't unauthorised

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 38 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Translation: of course they're not going to admit that Elon did it.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 6 days ago

Hey! He only owns the platform. Why would you think he's putting his thumb on the scale? /s

[–] RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

I am pretty sure that is called disinformation. Rather than "unauthorized edit"...

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 40 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The unauthorized edit is coming from inside the house.

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

Unauthorized is their office nickname for Musk.

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 9 points 6 days ago

Its incredible how things can just slip through, especially when they start at the very top

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago
[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 53 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Don’t know the reference but I’m sure it’s awesome. :p

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Heeeey a link!

You’re the best. I loved that.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's from the show "I think you should leave." There's a sketch where someone has crashed a weinermobile into a storefront, and bystanders are like "did anyone get hurt?" "What happened to the driver?" And then this guy shows up.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

They say that they'll upload the system prompt to github but that's just deception. The Twitter algorithm is "open source on github" and hasn't been updated for over 2 years. The issues are a fun read tho https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues

There's just no way to trust that anything is running on the server unless it's audited by 3rd party.

So now all of these idiots going to believe "but its on github open source" when the code is never actually being run by anyone ever.

[–] atmorous@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

We need people educated on open source, community-made hardware and software

[–] sjmarf@sh.itjust.works 23 points 6 days ago
[–] Kurious84@eviltoast.org 30 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Musk made the change but since AI is still as rough as his auto driving tech it did t work like he planned

But this is the future folks. Modifying the AI to fit the narrative of the regime. He's just too stupid to do it right or he might be stupid and think these llms work better than they actually do.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 6 days ago

he might be stupid and think these llms work better than they actually do.

There it is.

Are we talking about the same guy that opted to scrap all sensors for his self-driving cars because he figures humans can drive with eyes only, they don't need more than a camera?

[–] applemao@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is why I tell people stop using LLMs. The owner class owns them (imagine that) and will tell it to tell you what they want so they make more money. Simple as that.

This is why the Chinese openly releasing deepseek was such a kick in the balls to the LLM tech bros.

[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I'm going to bring it up.

Isn't this the same asshole who posted the "Woke racist" meme as a response to Gemini generating images of Black SS officers? Of course we now know he was merely triggered by the suggestion because of his commitment to white supremacy and alignment with the SS ideals, which he could not stand to see, pun not intended, denigrated.

The Gemini ordeal was itself a result of a system prompt; a half-ass attempt to correct for white bias deeply learned by the algorithm, just a few short years after Google ousted their AI ethics researcher for bringing this type of stuff up.

Few were the outlets that did not lend credence to the "outrage" about "diversity bias" bullshit and actually covered that deep learning algorithms are indeed sexist and racist.

Now this nazi piece of shit goes ahead and does the exact same thing; he tweaks a system prompt causing the bot to bring up the self-serving and racially charged topic of apartheid racists being purportedly persecuted. He does the vary same thing he said was "uncivilizational", the same concept he brought up just before he performed the two back-to-back Sieg Heil salutes during Trump's inauguration.

He was clearly not concerned about historical accuracy, not the superficial attempt to brown-wash the horrible past of racism which translates to modern algorithms' bias. His concern was clearly the representation of people of color, and the very ideal of diversity, so he effectively went on and implemented his supremacist seething into a brutal, misanthropic policy with his interference in the election and involvement in the criminal, fascist operation also known as DOGE.

Is there anyone at this point that is still sitting on the fence about Musk's intellectual dishonesty and deeply held supremacist convictions? Quickest way to discover nazis nowadays really: (thinks that Musk is a misunderstood genius and the nazi shit is all fake).

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

In a (code) perfect world, wouldn't an LLMs "personality" and biases be aligned with the median of its training set?

In other words....stupid-in/stupid-out. As long as the (median of) input data is racist and sexist, the output data would be equally bigoted.

That's not to say that the average person is openly bigoted, but the open bigots are pretty damn loud.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

None of the explanations matter now, too late. "White genocide" is now a thing in SA. The term is in people's heads. Mission accomplished.

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Looks like someone's taking some lessons from Zuck's methodology. "Whoops! That highly questionable and suspiciously intentional shit we did was totes an accident! Spilt milk now, I guess! Wuh-huh-heey honk-honk!"

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

There goes Adrian Dittman again. That guy oughta be locked up.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

And what about Elmo’s white genocide obsession?

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

i wish i knew who the rogue employee was. incredible

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I heard their initials are E.M.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

that's probably not true. I imagine it was someone trying to harm the guy. a hilarious prank

Haha, keep fucking with it, this is entertaining

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