alt Hacker News> but I don’t think language models being structurally incapable of offending your favorite race/ethnicity/caste should be an objective of AI labs.
The opposite should not be an objective either, and Elon has been very openly manipulating what grok says.
Good point.
But no one is saying "use grok".
Grok sucks. Not only because it's seemingly made only to serve the goal of ethnically cleansing non-whites or whatever, but also because it's just not even close to being as useful as other models. In human terms, grok is the job candidate who's simply not qualified. That candidate being a virulent racist is beside the material point.
Here's the thing though, the point of functional LLMs with fewer guardrails is still a good one. Grok is not that model. But such a hypothetical model would have broad application. (For good and for ill. Of course.)