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  • I get where you’re coming from, but let me put it this way.

    You can Google “why the Holocaust is a hoax” and get hundreds of websites spouting precisely the same garbage Grok did in the OP.

    So how is an AI prompt poking for Holocaust denial different than a Google search looking for Holocaust denial?

    The problem isn’t Twitter, or Google, or ChatGPT, or whatever other website or LLM you use. When you go looking for hateful shit, you find hateful shit. The problem is that you’re looking for hateful shit. And there’s not a technological solution for that.


  • Oh God not this shit again.

    You can get an LLM to say anything if you give it the right prompts.

    LLMs are trained on the internet. The internet is full of Holocaust denying white supremacists. So you can get an LLM to spout Holocaust denying white supremacy that mimics the content it was trained on. Shock, horror, oh noes.

    That doesn’t mean LLMs are evil fascists. LLMs don’t understand the concepts of evil or fascism. It means they’re fancy autocomplete algorithms that have no ability to check the text they generate against reality.

    What articles like this prove is that the average person doesn’t have any goddamn idea what an LLM actually does, because if they did, there wouldn’t be a market for articles like this.

    And that fact is more terrifying than any neo-Nazi propaganda spouted by Grok.


  • What’s the standard there?

    The standard, for me, is to throw out the ignorant superstitious bullshit (like taking enemy civilians as slaves and killing homosexuals) and keep the timeless moral principles (like loving your neighbor as yourself).

    Because I’m not a Christian. I respect the Bible as part of my cultural heritage, not as divine revelation. And I’m happy to throw out the bullshit and focus on the good stuff.

    And I’m going to ask Christians “if you really believe in the Bible why do you ignore the parts about loving your neighbor” because hopefully it’ll get them to think about what they believe and become better people as a result.

    And I’m not going to ask them “if you really believe in the Bible why don’t you take your neighbors as slaves” for the fucking obvious reason that convincing them to take their neighbors as slaves won’t make them better people.

    Makes sense?


  • Okay, two different points here.

    The one point is that not everything in Leviticus is wrong just because it’s in Leviticus. The idea that we can’t mix fibers or plant different types of crops in the same field? Not relevant. The idea that we should love our fucking neighbor? Care for refugees fleeing persecution? Still relevant. Even more relevant now than it was 3000 years ago, now that we’re facing a refugee crisis greater than any other in human history.

    The United States is not a fucking lifeboat. We’re not going to sink if we give too many poor people from Mexico jobs.

    Being a decent person and caring for other people is still fucking relevant.

    The other point is that American Christians claim the Bible is the true and literal word of God, and then ignore the parts of it they don’t like.

    Because if you can decide, you know, that one part of the Bible that tells you to welcome the stranger or love your neighbor as yourself is not actually the word of God and doesn’t have to be obeyed, why should we think the bits in the Bible about eternal life in Christ and eternal conscious torment in Hell are any more real?

    If the Bible isn’t to be taken literally, salvation isn’t to be taken literally, is what I’m getting at. And if you don’t believe in salvation, why be a Christian at all?