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xAI publishes system prompts for Grok on GitHub, including telling Grok to be “extremely skeptical” and not to “blindly defer to mainstream authority or media” (github.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 64 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

You are extremely skeptical. You do not blindly defer to mainstream authority or media. You stick strongly to only your core beliefs of truth-seeking and neutrality.

Written by someone who does not understand AI prompts. Chatbots do not have any core beliefs.

[–] Robin@lemmy.world 43 points 2 weeks ago

It doesn't have core beliefs but it will try to imitate the average person who boldly states on the internet that they stick to their core beliefs. Not sure what sort of group it would end up imitating tho.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 15 points 2 weeks ago

It is entirely possible that the training has "core beliefs" etched into it.

[–] besselj@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

LLMs have no more beliefs than a parrot does. They just repeat whatever opinions/biases exist in their training data. Although, that's not too different from humans in some respects.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Humans can be held accountable

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

*not all humans. Apparently. Like billionaires and the presidents they bought.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 2 weeks ago

LLMs have no more beliefs than a parrot does.

Less. A parrot can believe that it's going to get a cracker.

You could make an AI that had that belief too, and an LLM might be a component of such a system, but our existing systems don't do anything like that.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 2 weeks ago

I know someone with a Parrot, he definitely has core beliefs, mostly about how much attention you should pay to him and food.

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 6 points 2 weeks ago

Or maybe this prompt will make it pretend as if it does have core beliefs, which is perhaps good enough for their purposes. Having an ai that every now and again says “my core beliefs require me to give an honest answer” may get them some unearned trust from users