How Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image
date linked: 2 September 2025
source: link to article, from nytimes.com
Perhaps the best demonstration yet of why we need to talk about epistemology when we talk about generative AI. Gift link. It turns out that it takes an awful lot of intervention to get Grok to be “maximally truth-seeking” and “neutral.”
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