They are not intrinsically truth seekers, and any truth seeking behaviour is mostly tuned during the training process.
Unfortunately it also means it can be easily undone. E.g. just look at Grok in its current lobotomized version
Unfortunately it also means it can be easily undone. E.g. just look at Grok in its current lobotomized version
Is the average person a truth seeker in this sense that performs truth-seeking behavior? In my experience we prioritize sharing the same perspectives and getting along well with others a lot more than a critical examination of the world.
In the sense that I just expressed, of figuring out the intention of a user's information query, that really isn't a tuned thing, it's inherent in generative models from possessing a lossy, compressed representation of training data, and it is also truth-seeking practiced by people that want to communicate.
Absolutely
If ChatGPT claims arsenic to be a tasty snack, nothing happens to it.
If I claim the same, and act upon it, I die.
Evolution is much less brutal and efficient. To you death matters a lot more than being trained to avoid a response does to ChatGPT, but from the point of view of the "tasty arsenic" behavior, it's the same.
That being said, I don't ask any controversial or political questions; I use it to search for research papers. But if I try the occasional such question, the response is generally balanced and similar to that of any other LLM.