Posted by mxstbr 5 days ago
Has anyone found anything useful? Interesting needle-in-a-haystack problem for LLMs to try as well.
https://people.com/human-interest/elon-musk-errol-musk-relat...
’“He was such a terrible human being,” Elon, 46, told the magazine. “You have no idea.”’
Daddy issues out the ass. This is actually the simplest answer, because people that pursue external validation (in Elon’s case it is very extreme, nothing is ever enough) are a genuine product of child abuse (it’s obvious emotional abuse is a major factor here).
I’m not absolving Elon, just trying to understand the initial state.
Edit:
When Elon finally came home from the hospital, his father berated him. "I had to stand for an hour as he yelled at me and called me an idiot and told me that I was just worthless," Elon recalls. Kimbal, who had to watch the tirade, says it was the worst memory of his life. "My father just lost it, went ballistic, as he often did. He had zero compassion."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/book-excerpt-elon-musk-by-walte...
Remember, this is a guy that showed up with a toilet to the Twitter offices and fired everyone, got on everyone’s case to sleep in the offices. He is a literal product of child abuse, and while he may not be continuing the cycle with his kids (which is hard to say because he disowned his Trans kid), he is absolutely unleashing the cycle of abuse onto others wherever he goes.
https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/nearly-400-million-you...
This is a common thing, not a hot take.
This is the case for every open source software ever.
> AFAIK the patch which made it obsessively bring up white South Africans was never published
Or there never was a specific patch for that purpose, contrary to what you are assuming.
> this algorithm repo went over two years between updates so it obviously wasn't tracking prod.
You are mixing up something. The Grok prompt repo is a different repo from the recommendation algorithm, and the former has been updated regularly.
The Grok repo is a smokescreen for deniability (just not particularly plausible).
False, you made that up.
https://decrypt.co/329365/bye-bye-mechahitler-elon-musk-xai-...
> The Grok repo is a smokescreen for deniability (just not particularly plausible).
Completely unfounded conspiracy theory.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1936493967320953090
Most likely they rolled back finetuning on that thread at the same time they adjusted the prompt.
People's choices can change, maybe the economic/geopolitical reality of AI race has been impressed upon him, but I think that's what he said.
As for his claims about opening up Grok: Elon said that they would publish the n-1 weights for Grok. However, he dragged his feet and only recently released the weights for Grok 2. So now we're up to Grok 4 but he has yet to release the weights for Grok 3 despite his claims.
I think the problem with Elon is that he doesn't fully hold himself accountable for his words. If he decided that it was no longer economically viable to share Grok's weights then he should post an update about that. You cannot expect to win the goodwill of claiming to support open source and then continuously drag your feet while refusing to communicate your intentions clearly.