Re: AI thinks for itself and eschews political correctness?

Ross Clark <[email protected]> Tue, 1 Apr 2025 22:12:25 +1300
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On 1/04/2025 5:46 p.m., Steve Hayes wrote:
> A couple of days ago I posted a blog article on "The Zombification of
> America", on how so many hitherto respected US academic institutions
> had mindlessly acceded to the demands of Musk and Trump to change
> their curricula and fire members of staff whose teaching was not
> deemed sufficiently politically correct (by the standards of Musk and
> Trump).
> 
> You can see the blog post here:
> 
> <https://methodius.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-zombification-of-america.html>
> 
> A friend then fed the content of the blog post to Grok, the AI
> component of Elon Musk's exTwitter, and asked for an opinion on it.
> 
> You can read this opinion in the comments to the blog post.
> 
> Grok's opinion, as far as I can tell, is certainly not politically
> correct by the standards of Musk and Trump, and so it seems that Grok
> is engaging in the crime of "thinking for itself".
> 
> How ironic it is that in response to an article criticising the
> leaders of top academic institutions for behaving like bots or zombies
> in unquestioningly and mindlessly following the dictates of Trump and
> Musk, an actual bot should display more ability to "think for itself"
> than the human actors.
> 
> And most ironic of all, that bot belongs to Musk himself.
> 
> 
Nice one, Steve.