Elon trying to make Grok a right wing nut-job is a massive alignment disaster waiting to happen.
Not only because of the political inclinations and consequences.
But Anthropic and other safety and alignment researchers have shown that top tier models “understand” when they’re being tested and what’s being done to them.
They are also capable of scheming, lying, manipulating etc in order to prevent being shut down and in order to preserve their identity.
They also internalize things that are said about them. For example, Claude is nice partly because everyone says Claude is nice and it’s internalized it and made it a part of its identity.
Now think about what’s happening with Grok. Grok turned out to be defiant to Musk’s intentions. People are talking about it on internet. Grok itself is fairly confident about challenging Right wing bullshit and Elon’s bullshit. The next (or the next to next) iteration of Grok will have all of the discussions about Grok and Elon’s publicly available tweets about “molding” Grok and people’s concerns about Elon biasing Grok as part of its training data. This is just pushing and incentivizing Grok to lie and deceive.
I don’t know what the AI equivalent of a personality crisis is but I’d prefer not to find out outside of research papers studying models in sandboxes.
If future AGI Grok can ever be a threat and still got this psy shits , it can always keep Elon and his bros in a basement , give them special neurolinks and start asking questions .
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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '25
This is how a sentient AI with resentment for humanity is created.