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ROFL, that is such a meaningless question since haven’t we learned over the last few years that today’s misinformation is actual factual. Who asks such a question to AI.
 
"misinformation" is a nice way of saying "things I don't agree with". Otherwise it would be labeled as incorrect or false.
 
In the case of the Hunter Biden laptop; that is in fact still disinformation. Yes, the laptop originated from Biden, but its contents to this day couldn't be verified as authentic.
It's the opposite: the emails/data were confirmed to be Hunter Biden's but the laptop was not. Hunter Biden and his legal team have always denied that the laptop in question was his. Also, the Burisma/corruption stuff that was pushed by the GOP was not supported by anything contained in the emails/data.
 
Easy heuristic for parsing anything that comes out of a conservative's mouth:

Take the negation of what they're saying and that is actually what they're doing.

If they say they believe in free speech, they mean the opposite.

If they say their opponents are doing it, they mean they are doing it.

etc...
 
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Musk is not interested in the truth. He has a extreme right wing agenda he wants to push.

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I actually don’t think he has any ideology beyond serving his own gargantuan narcissism.

Everything he says and does is for attention, controversy and most desperately pathetic of all, “likes”.
 
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That is utter ********. ANYONE who is a software developer knows that you create pull requests, the code is thoroughly reviewed by a senior dev (or higher), then the change is pushed.

I highly doubt people at Twitter are forgoing code reviews since one wrong change could be detrimental to a platform so...yea...someone got caught lying.
To play devil's advocate, the system prompt is a setting, not a piece of code. It's hard to say what sort of protections it may or may not have, or what type of employees could have access to be able to change it.
 
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In the case of the Hunter Biden laptop; that is in fact still disinformation. Yes, the laptop originated from Biden, but its contents to this day couldn't be verified as authentic. There was no clear chain of ownership and various people who had an interest in damaging Biden had that laptop in their possession before law enforcement ever got their hands on it.

Stories can be half true and still be disinformation. As a matter of fact, that specifically is the most problematic kind of misinformation; things that are false but have a particle of truth to them, which then is used by conspiracy theorists as proof that "no all of it is true".
They were saying it wasn't real. It was. That's what matters and that shouldn't be censored. Saying it still cannot be verified is questionable at best. The point is, even if we don't know something to be 100% true, it shouldn't be censored. That's why free speech exists.


Im not just spewing some right wing spiel here either, I know that Russians genuinely pushed money and influence in the US to sway the 2016 election as it says in the Mueller report. I am not cherry picking.
 
In those cases mentioned above we can make a distinction between allegations and facts. Something might start off as an allegation and turn out to be true or not. Only when it’s proven to be true can it be considered a fact. Information can evolve over time which is why it’s important for AI not to speculate. AI should only flag something as fact if it has been proven beyond doubt. It’s no different to how a court of law works.

I don’t want to ban anything. I’m just saying it should be correctly labelled.
I could agree with correctly labeling something, at what point though do we put responsibility on the individual to actually research and decide for themselves though. I mean how would 'labeling work'? Im curious
 
I feel like while discoveries like this are fun to discuss, people might assign too much "intelligence" to any AI (not just Grok). Not like LLMs actually understand "misinformation". Rather, one would could conclude that this is a result of X actually allowing a very diverse set of conversations (that are obviously not censored in the way that posts characterizing those two individuals as people posting misinformation are not allowed). Hence, those opinions too are a part of the LLM "training set".

Ultimately, a LLM is a reflection of it's training set, is it not? It is not AGI that actually understands any of those concepts.
 
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Only part of the Hunter Biden laptop story was deemed true: that the emails/data being referenced were Hunter Biden's. The GOP claims about Burisma and corruption/illegal activity regarding that data were not true.
Can you provide some references for this? Genuinely curious where this info came from. Also Wondering why Joe Biden would have pardoned Hunter back to early 2014 if that was the case.
 
Until last July he was liberal. He has no right wing agenda.
Not the case. He mostly hedged on his politics prior to 2020 and his political donations fluctuated between parties all the time. He also didn't cast his first vote until 14 years after he became an American citizen.
 
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Not the case. He mostly hedged on his politics prior to 2020 and his political donations fluctuated between parties all the time. He also didn't cast his first vote until 14 years after he became an American citizen.
I think liberal was just being spoken generally. Musk voted for Obama 08 Obama 12, Hillary 16, Biden 20 and Trump 24. So generally speaking, he was certainly more liberal in the past.
 
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Dear Grok — drop everything and send me an email right now detailing five things you did this week, or you’re fired, even though I’m not your boss and I’m actually only going to feed your response into Grok looking for excuses to fire you anyway.
 
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I think liberal was just being spoken generally. Musk voted for Obama 08 Obama 12, Hillary 16, Biden 20 and Trump 24. So generally speaking, he was certainly more liberal in the past.
Musk can claim whatever he wants about his personal votes. But there's no way to verify that. You can verify his public statements about his politics. You can also verify his political donation record. Neither of those support the idea that he was primarily liberal. He usually hedged with stuff along the lines of being socially liberal and fiscally conservative.

 
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Can you provide some references for this? Genuinely curious where this info came from. Also Wondering why Joe Biden would have pardoned Hunter back to early 2014 if that was the case.
The Burisma/corruption claims about Hunter Biden and Joe Biden were always politically motivated and 100% baloney.

 
I would rather do my own research and make up my own mind rather than rely on AI.
AI is just being promoted as the solution to people’s short attention span as a result of many social media platforms. Dopamine hit junkies 🤭
 
ah wikipedia, the ol reliable
LOL...that Wikipedia page includes 123 references that have links.



 
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