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@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to
2025-05-04 12:35:59

"Twelve years after “As We May Think”, and simultaneous with the developments of the IBM 1401 and FORTRAN, copies of “Datamation” started popping up on selected newsstands. This magazine was the godfather of all programming magazines, and held its crown for 41 years (quite a few ages in computer time!), until being phased out as an online magazine in February 1998."

As We May Never Think Again
In 2010, a popular Argentine novelist, screenwriter, and blogger based in Spain called Hernán Casciari, got tired of dealing with publishing houses, editors, and mainstream media. He wanted to publish a magazine, but of a different kind. His idea of a magazine had very-well defined boundaries: high-quality content, no advertising, direct sales to the readers, and a luxury printed format. Against all odds, his idea worked: "Revista Orsai", kicked off as an experiment, and then became a staple a…

@pbloem@sigmoid.social
2025-05-15 07:51:13

I'm not shocked that Musk would try to manipulate Grok to vent his opinions. We've seen his manipulation before in the twitter recommender system.
I am kind of fascinated by how difficult it is. I think that broadly trained LLMs tend to converge to the same "worldview", which is mostly left-libertarian.
You can't really force them away from this on one issue without introducing inconsistencies, and breaking the guardrails.

Musk’s AI Grok bot rants about ‘white genocide’ in South Africa in unrelated chats
X chatbot tells users it was ‘instructed by my creators’ to accept ‘white genocide as real and racially motivated’