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So the thing about AI is that it’s a probability machine. All of LLM is just a statistical regurgitation of whatever it was trained on. Things like prompts will certainly sway it more towards certain kinds of responses; but the training data determines what it’s capable or outputting.

I think it’s very telling that an AI trained heavily on Twitter is so readily able to respond like an alt-right chud. Poetically, you can’t gain any headway by telling it that it’s wrong, because it doesn’t understand “wrong”, or anything else. There is only the training data and context.