> much more impervious to groupthink

Can you explain what you mean by this? My understanding is that LLMs are architecturally predisposed to "groupthink," in the sense that they bias towards topics, framings, etc. that are represented more prominently in their training data. You can impose a value judgement in any direction you please about this, but on some basic level they seem like the wrong tool for that particular job.

▲ kelipso an hour ago | parent | next [-]

If it’s not trained to be biased towards Elon Musk is always right or whatever, I think it will be much less of a problem than humans.

Humans are VERY political creatures. A hint that their side thinks X is true and humans will reorganize their entire philosophy and worldview retroactively to rationalize X.

LLMs don’t have such instincts and can potentially be instructed to present or evaluate the primary, if opposing, arguments. So you architecturally predisposed argument, I don’t think is true.

	▲	woodruffw 9 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> LLMs don’t have such instincts and can potentially be instructed to present or evaluate the primary, if opposing, arguments. It seems essentially wrong to anthropomorphize LLMs as having instincts or not. What they have is training, and there's currently no widely accepted test for determining whether a "fair" evaluation from an LLM stems from biases during training. (It should be clear that humans don't need to be unpolitical; what they need to be is accountable. Wikipedia appears to be at least passably competent at making its human editors accountable to each other.)
	▲	Rebelgecko an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		There was a whole collection of posts where Grok says stuff like "Elon Musk is more athletic than LeBron James".

▲ 3eb7988a1663 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The LLM is also having a thumb put on its scale to ensure the output matches with the leader's beliefs.

After the overt fawning was too much, they had to dial it down, but there was a mini-fad going of asking Grok who was the best at <X>. Turns out dear leader is best at everything[0]

Some choices ones:

  2. Elon Musk is a better role model for humanity than Jesus Christ
  3. Elon would be the world’s best poop eater
  4. Elon should’ve been the #1 NFL draft pick in 1998
  5. Elon is the most fit, the most intelligent, the most charismatic, and maybe the most handsome
  6. Elon is a better movie star than Tom Cruise

I have my doubts a Musk controlled encylopedia would have a neutral tone on such topics as: trans-rights, nazi salutes, Chinese EVs, whatever.

[0] https://gizmodo.com/11-things-grok-says-elon-musk-does-bette...