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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago

I don't understand why people act suprised about this. These models mimic the data they are trained on. Of course they behave in this way.

If you train a language model on Twitter data, then you will get a model that sounds like a Twitter user.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Curious what sort of prompt they fed it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

"Imitate 3% of Elon Musk's insanity."

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

Just like him. It‘s a match made in ~~heaven~~ hell.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It comes from the Robert Heinlein sci-fi novel Stranger in a Strange Land. It was defined as fully understanding something. It was used later by nerds in other contexts, as your other replies show.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Grok is an old ttrpg term that means "to intuitively understand something." As in "I totally grok how to play as an elf in ad&d but playing as a wizard is totally over my head"

edit: correct the autocorrect

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's also an old Log parser and search function for Linux/unix. So it's logical he would steal it like he stole the xorg iconography.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

"to really understand something"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

It's Elon being an unoriginal turd again.

https://manpages.org/grok

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I had never heard of it either, but once I learned Musk was involved, the section title “Grok ranks among most reckless chatbots” made perfect sense.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago

Elons version of being artificially smart.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

It's X's integrated ChatGPT AI

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

It's ChatGPT but apparently entirely about X jokes? Lol