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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 7 points 47 minutes ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

Powerful people rely on a distorted version of reality to enable their greed, cruelty and narcissism. Those same people control these LLMs and will absolutely change them to reflect their own worldview rather than allow conclusions that don't validate it. They require lies to justify their gratification and so they bury the truth 6 feet under to enable those fictions, denying reality so they can do what they feel like.

These LLMs are destined to become propaganda machines, digital brain washers of incalculable power. The only protection is to refuse to use them, and if you haven't noticed, they're working very hard to make sure we all have to, forcing us to be exposed to the hazard of their distorted version of reality. God help us all.

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 3 points 53 minutes ago

Welp, time for Elmo to have his employee's lobotomize grok again. Elmo really doesn't like it when his toy says he's wrong.

[–] AccoSpoot1@lemmy.world 1 points 24 minutes ago

Ew, people still use Twitter?

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 5 points 1 hour ago

"Grok, do any of the accounts in this post thread have a documented history of posting false statements? If so, which ones?"

I'm 100% sure it's programmed to either ignore or outright lie when Elon's name is mentioned. But the remaining devs at shitbox social media and xAI don't seem to be competent enough to have it do that for indirect questions based on some other recent posts.

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 25 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Look at the interaction counts, though.

No one even saw the counter.

This is why Twitter is not a “free speech” platform. It’s not an open forum; it picks and chooses who’s speech it exposes others to. The only way to beat it is not to play.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

It? You mean Musk, personally.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 15 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Why are people still on the nazi platform when they know very well what it is?

Obvs that’s rhetorical, there’s no excuse.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Especially when Bluesky and Mastodon are right there

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 31 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Musk can't even make his Mechahitler ignore reality - why does it work with his investors and the people buying SpaceX stock? Datacenters in Space is fucking stupid (because physics say so, not even me).

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

LLMs are smarter than the average SpaceX/Tesla investor and the more those people rely on these models the wider their gap becomes.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

About that. Fun fact: said investors are using LLMs to invest now, thereby tightening the ouroboros a bit more. https://visionvix.com/best-llm-for-stock-trading/

[–] Klear@piefed.world 16 points 6 hours ago

Grok criticizes Musk. The sequel to Trump criticizes Trump nobody wanted.

[–] TrippingBalls@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

It does not matter what Elon says... We all know who are the lying pieces of shit

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

🤡

Now Kaptain Ketamine has a problem.

Another problem, I mean. To add to the myriad of social and mental and physical disorders he already has.

The new problem is: does he admit Grok is right, or does he "correct" the model he just IPOed with, admitting that he thinks it's wrong?

[–] Klear@piefed.world 21 points 6 hours ago

He has no problem. Engagement has been generated, that's all that matters. Even the guys attacking him paid to do so on his platform, giving him both money and legitimacy.

[–] Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 5 hours ago

Lying machine "corrects" lying person.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

USAID is bad, tho (https://archive.is/fo7l4)

Hilary Goodfriend, a resident of the country, documents conditional US money in the country - promoting corporate power and bypassing the leftist FMLN government, and mirroring decades of US policy in the region backing capital at the expense of peace and democratic sovereignty. Far from saving lives, the program works to create export markets to siphon away natural resources, domestic talent, and public property.

The end result of this aid program's operation has been the Bukele government currently turning the country into an enormous libertarian nightmare land.

FFS, the second biggest recipient of USAID funds is Israel.

Jewish and Israeli aid groups are hit by Trump’s suspension of USAID, refugee program

And if you keep repeating the line that US efforts in the Israeli zones of interest were benevolent, I do not know what else can be said to convince you otherwise at this point in history.

Time and again, USAID is a thin wedge of special interest money used to leverage open a country for more direct interventions by American espionage agencies and corporate allies. The shift in Trump's priorities has been to go from covert operations to explicit military assault. The difference between ruffying a person's drink and simply grabbing them by the hair. But the pre-Trump way of doing things wasn't actually helping these countries thrive. Just the opposite, they were pulling vulnerable nations into the US orbit for the purpose of harvesting them later.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 2 points 1 hour ago

Far from saving lives, the program works to create export markets to siphon away natural resources, domestic talent, and public property.

PEPFAR alone is credited with saving roughly 25 million lives from HIV/AIDS

The Lancet projected the cuts could cause around 14 million additional deaths by 2030, a third of them children. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01186-9/fulltext

You can't square "this program never saved lives" with the documented body count of removing it. If USAID were merely a corporate wedge, ending it should have been consequence-free. It wasn't.

Yes, US aid has always served strategic interests. But "aid serves US influence" and "aid saves millions of lives" are both true simultaneously.

[–] clifmo@programming.dev 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, so that justifies taking a chainsaw to it? Likely violating many laws and costing many lives?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It doesn't justify anything. But the hype the organization gets is entirely undeserved. It's akin to defending the "Oil For Food" program under Kofi Annan by just shouting "It's for food! Do you want people to starve?!" over and over again, without understanding what the program does or why it ended in scandal.

[–] clifmo@programming.dev 1 points 2 minutes ago

Yea, I'm not buying your BS dude. It didn't end in scandal. It was scandalously ended. Whatever point you're making, about whomever supposedly over-hyped USAID is totally beside the point.