[FRIAM] 2010 Space Odyssey

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Just to pile on:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/may/13/chatgpt-ai-big-tech-cooperation

"In my own ChatGPT dialogues, I wanted to enact how the product’s veneer of collegial neutrality could lull us into absorbing false or biased responses without much critical engagement. Over time, ChatGPT seemed to be guiding me to write a more positive book about big tech – including editing my description of OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, to call him “a visionary and a pragmatist”. I’m not aware of research on whether ChatGPT tends to favor big tech, OpenAI or Altman, and I can only guess why it seemed that way in our conversation. OpenAI explicitly states that its products shouldn’t attempt to influence users’ thinking. When I asked ChatGPT about some of the issues, it blamed biases in its training data – though I suspect my arguably leading questions played a role too."

On 5/14/25 8:43 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> An intervention like Elon’s could be done with fine tuning.   Fine tuning adds new weights to the system but without changing the hard-won weights from the months of pretraining.  If the pretrained weights are called W0, fine tuning adds the product of two new smaller matrices B and A to create the effective weights.  BA has a tunable multiplier, typically called α that determines how much to favor the fine tuning values for BA.  If α is too large, as it could be if a crazy boss leaned on xAI managers, it could even change the prior probabilities of sequences and inappropriately blurt out unrelated content.   What Grok was saying seems plausible:  α might have been increased until its constitutional training was overridden.  And then weird things started happening.
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> What-hat hack?  Inside sabotage job?  Some very clever feeder of engineered input to its training data?
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> For insiders to be clumsy and do it badly is believable.  But to have Grok deliver explanations that look like they came from The Onion seems like not even tabloid-level composition.
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> Eric
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>  > On May 15, 2025, at 8:26, Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com <mailto:marcus at snoutfarm.com>> wrote:
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