{"id":11269,"date":"2023-08-21T10:38:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T08:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/21\/very-wonderful-very-toxic-how-ai-became-the-culture-wars-new-frontier\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T10:38:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T08:38:49","slug":"very-wonderful-very-toxic-how-ai-became-the-culture-wars-new-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/21\/very-wonderful-very-toxic-how-ai-became-the-culture-wars-new-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Very wonderful, very toxic\u2019: how AI became the culture war\u2019s new frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the far right claims artificial intelligence has become too \u2018woke\u2019, experts argue it\u2019s not a sentient being with its own viewpoints<\/p>\n<p>When Elon Musk introduced the team behind his new artificial intelligence company xAI last month, the billionaire entrepreneur took a question from the rightwing media activist Alex Lorusso. ChatGPT had begun \u201ceditorializing the truth\u201d by giving \u201cweird answers like that there are more than two genders\u201d, Lorusso posited. Was that a driver behind Musk\u2019s decision to launch xAI, he wondered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do think there is significant danger in training AI to be politically correct, or in other words training AI to not say what it actually thinks is true,\u201d Musk replied. His own company\u2019s AI on the other hand, would be \u201cmaximally true\u201d he had said earlier in the presentation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/aug\/21\/artificial-intelligence-culture-war-woke-far-right\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/787616f781a4d0110ece1bd9b3c7018d764cd493\/0_0_1500_900\/master\/1500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3d827ace64529901427daaef5987477c\" title=\"\u2018Very wonderful, very toxic\u2019: how AI became the culture war\u2019s new frontier\" \/>While the far right claims artificial intelligence has become too \u2018woke\u2019, experts argue it\u2019s not a sentient being with its own viewpoints<br \/>\nWhen Elon Musk introduced the team behind his new artificial intelligence company xAI last month, the billionaire entrepreneur took a question from the rightwing media activist Alex Lorusso. ChatGPT had begun \u201ceditorializing the truth\u201d by giving \u201cweird answers like that there are more than two genders\u201d, Lorusso posited. Was that a driver behind Musk\u2019s decision to launch xAI, he wondered.<br \/>\n\u201cI do think there is significant danger in training AI to be politically correct, or in other words training AI to not say what it actually thinks is true,\u201d Musk replied. His own company\u2019s AI on the other hand, would be \u201cmaximally true\u201d he had said earlier in the presentation. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the far right claims artificial intelligence has become too \u2018woke\u2019, experts argue it\u2019s not a sentient being with its own viewpoints When Elon Musk introduced the team behind his new artificial intelligence company xAI last month, the billionaire entrepreneur took a question from the rightwing media activist Alex Lorusso. ChatGPT had begun \u201ceditorializing the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/21\/very-wonderful-very-toxic-how-ai-became-the-culture-wars-new-frontier\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Very wonderful, very toxic\u2019: how AI became the culture war\u2019s new frontier<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11269"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}