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"We are discussing today's earthquake. On one side, a seismologist. On the other side, someone who believes earthquakes are caused by a giant underground bull tossing the earth on its horns .........." Less bull, more science.

This is how humanity ends. Musk is deliberately creating an AI that lies, distorts, and justifies illogic. It's the opposite of alignment. Not hard to imagine an AGI like this reasoning that humans are unnecessary.

The Grok 3 response is criminally inaccurate - it has been programmed with false equivalency of positions to hide the scientific consensus behind a political view based on ignorance of nonlinear systems. It is concerning how far down the rabbit hole that goes.

The worst thing about this response is not this specific response. It means that the finetune has been designed to treat claims from random contrarians as equivalent to the mainstream consensus views of the field. So it will be doing this with *everything*, not just this one topic.

Agreed, as I wrote it "is criminally inaccurate - it has been programmed with false equivalency of positions to hide the scientific consensus behind a political view based on ignorance of nonlinear systems." — and if it's being done in this field, I don't doubt the intent to mislead won't stop here.

I wrote a little thread pulling together the evidence of what is happening. It is under the philosophical position taken by Bruno Latour, based on the evidence he saw of the wealthy giving up on climate action, separating themselves from the rest, and using finance and power to delay climate action.

Matthew Gyamtso (Jee)@freedomforall.net

Climate science denialism baked into Grok 3 shows the agenda of the US regime is very deeply troubling. Don't be mistaken, this is evidence of criminal intent — Grok 3 is controlled by the same psychopath who is criminally destroying the American administrative state, and these actions have purpose.

Curious about this thread you wrote. I mean, it's pretty clear the wealthy and the leaders of every nation are collapse-aware. But rather than spend their wealth on turning the ship around, they're all (except China) full speed ahead. Pure psychopathy. And we are allowing it.

So basically pick the facts to fit a pre existing opinion. Forcing things like this into an equally weighted argument, with the majority of experts on one side will be our downfall. See Brexit.

The worst thing about it is how terribly misleading it is. For example, that "coasts flooded by 2000" thing... www.snopes.com/fact-check/n... ... was a single AP article in the 1980s, and it didn't say that some nations would be flooded *by* 2000, but that we had to *act by* 2000.

snopes.comDid UN Official Say Nations to Vanish If Global Warming Not Reversed?An Associated Press article from 1989 is popular among climate-change deniers.

Grok 3 is the largest LLM ever released, trained at a cost of $4 billion on 200,000 Nvidia H100s GPUs in the purpose built Colossus Supercluster - a massive scaling up from GPT4 class models. My very first prompt: give me a list of dog breeds ending in the letter “i”. 😂

This thread's "hmm let me just try it out" wasted nearly 3.5 quarts of precious water. Just a reminder that casual use of these bullshit generators still does actual real-world harm even before their output is read.

Shit, it doesn't even cite sources or actual data when it presents the sceptical arguments..! I assume its reference to the failed prediction about flooding in 2000 is this misinterpreted short article that deniers typically show yet don't understand but I expected an AI bot would understand it: