每日英语一讲,助力四六级——马斯克如何将 Grok 打造成自己的“化身”

埃隆·马斯克如何将 Grok 打造成自己的“化身”

Elon Musk has said Grok, the A.I.-powered chatbot that his company developed, should be “politically neutral” and “maximally truth-seeking.” But in practice, Mr. Musk and his artificial intelligence company, xAI, have tweaked the chatbot to make its answers more conservative on many issues, according to an analysis of thousands of its responses by The New York Times. The shifts appear, in some cases, to reflect Mr. Musk’s political priorities.

埃隆·马斯克曾表示，他的公司开发的人工智能聊天机器人 Grok 应该是“政治中立的”和“最大化追求真相的”。但《纽约时报》对其数千条回答的分析显示，在实际运行中，马斯克和他的人工智能公司 xAI 对这个机器人进行了调整，使其在许多问题上的回答更偏向保守立场。在某些情况下，这些变化似乎反映了马斯克的政治优先事项。

Grok is similar to tools like ChatGPT, but it also lives on X, giving the social network’s users the opportunity to ask it questions by tagging it in posts. One user on X asked Grok in July to identify the “biggest threat to Western civilization.” It responded that the greatest threat was “misinformation and disinformation.” “Sorry for this idiotic response,” Mr. Musk groused on X after someone flagged Grok’s answer. “Will fix in the morning,” he said.

Grok 与 ChatGPT 等工具类似，但它还“生活”在社交平台 X 上，用户可以通过在帖子中标记它来提问。今年 7 月，一位用户在 X 上要求 Grok 指出“对西方文明的最大威胁”。Grok 回答说，最大的威胁是“错误信息和虚假信息”。当有人把这个回答转发给马斯克时，他在 X 上抱怨道：“抱歉，这是个愚蠢的回答，明早修复”。

The next day, Mr. Musk published a new version of Grok that responded that the greatest threat was low “fertility rates” — an idea popular among conservative natalists that has transfixed Mr. Musk for years and something he has said motivated him to father at least 11 children. Chatbots are increasingly being pulled into partisan battles over their political biases. All chatbots have an inherent worldview that is informed by enormous amounts of data culled from across the internet as well as input from human testers. (In Grok’s case, that training data includes posts on X.)

第二天，马斯克发布了一个新版本的 Grok，它的回答变成了：最大的威胁是低“生育率”——这是保守派人口主义者推崇的观点，马斯克多年来也对此深信不疑，并表示这是他至少生育 11 个孩子的动机之一。随着聊天机器人不断被卷入关于政治偏见的党派争论，问题也愈发突出。所有聊天机器人都带有固有的世界观，这种世界观来自于从整个互联网收集的大量数据以及人工测试者的输入。（就 Grok 而言，其训练数据还包括 X 上的帖子。）

文章来源：学习强国

编辑：张 圣

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