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[–] 96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl -1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I am all in favor of hating Musk and all his products, but I think you're right. It seems rather unlikely that they would instruct their LLM to go out of its way to give fascist replies. That's not to say that it shouldn't be instructed to not give fascist output, which apparently it hasn't been. Sadly, increasingly people form their view of the world based on the output of LLMs, so it would be helpful if these LLMs would help create worldviews that are beneficial to humanity at large, or at the very least prevent ones that are evidently harmfull. Which begs the question, who is to decide what is helpful and what is harmful. Musks answer is probably 'freedom of speech, who is to say that we can't spoonfeed hate to little children'. Which seems to me to be an example of when ideas of freedom turn into nihilism. But where they're right is that government should also not be the one who tells people how to view the world. It's people who should tell government, and the reverse, though perhaps well intended, is itself rather dangerous. I think the solution, as per usual, is to free it all up, make FOSS LLMs, and let people choose the limitations which they deem proper. I would certainly not want my kids on 'freedom of speech'-style unrestricted AI, just like I don't want some amoral nihilist as my kids' school teacher. I want someone who teaches them love, kindness, forgiveness, harmony, honesty, sincerity, etc.