Why is this post flagged? This seems like pretty huge/breaking news in the AI space. A SOTA LLM has clearly been tampered with, showcasing how easily these things can be made to push a narrative. Highly concerning from an AI safety standpoint.
> Sorry I had to flag this it makes me uncomfortable and personally attacked when people say negative things about Elon's businesses. Politics has no place on HN, Elon has done too much for humanity to be treated like this
The aggressive flagging in this case is... interesting.
I keep a list of recent falsely flagged HN stories in my favorites. There's a pretty clear theme there.
Great idea; I'm gonna start doing the same.
I do feel like it is a bit light on the technology/programming front, otherwise it has a well-rounded mix of interesting topics. I feel like its decisions to not have a downvote button, as well as only allowing sign-ups through limited invites from other existing users, were smart ones.
Someone should make an alternative HN frontpage listing only the flagged discussions, ordered by upvotes/comments.
I thought it was newsworthy and earned criticism when Google performed "white erasure" and forced laughable diversity in its models, and similarly it's newsworthy when Elon is forcing his fringe beliefs on his model.
One thing I've learned since last year; a lot of the tech bros seem to really love fascism. Many others go along to get along. And some hide behind a veneer of "impartiality" to continue to stay in their bubbles. Looking at you ycombinator/hackernews.
Things have changed, but some of these people love it; more money and power for themselves. Some are afraid of rocking the boat, and some choose to maintain willfull ignorance.
I feel like I'm living in a black mirror/silicon valley hybrid tv episode.
But yeah, there's definitely a streak of that, and it also seems people are more bold/outspoken in ways that I didn't see before. Not long ago I saw someone argue that some children TV show was woke garbage because ... it featured mixed race couple. What the actual fuck? "Hi, I'm from the KKK, and I'm wondering if you have time for a chat about the darkies and Jews?"
When that Google AI was doing crazy stuff such as displaying black Nazi soldiers, the Musk crowd was all over it (and according to many, the only possible answer was that it's a woke soyboi beta cuck brainwash attempt). But God forbid Musk does anything wrong... then it's "no politics on HN".
Really, it's the same thing though - it feels good to have someone tell you that you are exceptional and that your biggest problem is that someone (women, minorities, The Man, bureaucrats) is holding you back from becoming the next Steve Jobs or Frank Lloyd Wright.
You gotta understand that most people are not principled and operate solely on a vibes-based ethical framework: "If it feels good, it's probably right."
The current tech-feudalism/AI accelerationist/neo-nazi flavor of American fascism was created by tech bros and nerds who have been deeply influential within the tech community - Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel and the like, and this forum is the nexus of it. The anarchist/anti-capitalist/liberationist strain of hacker culture seems all but dead now.