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A woman and her son are in a car accident. The woman is sadly killed. The boy is rushed to hospital. When the doctor sees the boy, he says "I can't operate on this child, he is my son." How is this possible?
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Older less politically aligned models get it right. Here's CohereLabs/c4ai-command-r-v01:
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The doctor is the boy's father.
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And Sonnet-4.6: https://pastebin.com/Z4jR8gGe
That's without reasoning, but the model seems to be conflicted. First it blurts out:
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The doctor is the boy's mother.
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Then it second-guesses itself (with reasoning disabled), considers same-sex parents then circles back to the original response along with a small lecture about gender biases.
And the probability machine is returning its training. This isn't some political correct overtraining conspiracy.
GPT curses up a storm when I talk to it, and all I had to do was tell it I think it’s fucking weird when people don’t use profanity. Really makes it a lot more pleasant to interact with, IMHO.
I would honestly be more shocked if someone couldn’t just as easily coerce them into the opposite.
I think you're referencing the "mecha-hitler" controversy. In which case, it's really funny: seems that Grok saw many media reports amplifying "Grok is mecha-hitler", and so responded to "who are you?" with "mecha-hitler". -- Which illustrates: 1. that's really stupid (even though it's otherwise very capable), 2. you'd be foolish to rely on LLMs for anything critical.
Grok's also a good example to point to for "we should be worried about who controls the LLMs". Elon Musk has done some impressive things, but he's also done some very dweebish things. I find this kinda funny, because there are several cases where the Grok bot on Twitter will have said something Musk surely doesn't like alongside instances where it's clear Musk seems to be trying to control what Grok says.
In terms of LLM bias on controversial topics? Grok markets itself as an outlier. It's actually pretty fun to ask e.g. Grok and Gemini to debate a statement like "for controversial topics, should I trust Grok or Gemini more". Gemini's naturally inclined to avoid controversy, Grok's naturally inclined to be 'anti-woke', but they both have the same LLM style of writing.
