‘Improved’ Grok criticizes Democrats and Hollywood’s ‘Jewish executives’

date linked: 7 July 2025

source: link to article, from werd.io

More on why we need to talk epistemology when we talk generative AI:

Musk tweaking his AI model to be more aligned with right-wing edgelords was inevitable, but there’s a broader point to be made: each AI model is a black box that supposedly gives objective answers but in reality is shaped by its owners. As more people look to AI to learn about the world, the people who control how it’s trained and how it responds will control our prevailing narratives.

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I feel like we need to talk more about epistemology—and especially the social construction of facts—in the era of chatbot LLMs.

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