- Musk plans to retrain Grok 3.5 AI to “rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge” by eliminating what he calls “garbage” and biased information from training data.
- Critics compare Musk’s knowledge revision plan to Orwellian dystopian control, raising concerns about potential bias and manipulation of historical records.
Elon Musk declared his intentions to rewrite the databases of human historical knowledge using his Grok AI system. The billionaire was not satisfied with the existing training data and said that it is filled with too much biased and erroneous information in general.
The new Grok 3.5 model by Musk will have advanced reasoning ability that will reorganize the existing knowledge in a comprehensive and systematic manner. The contentious idea is to delete what Musk believes to be inaccurate data and include the missing data to make cleaner datasets.
Elon Musk’s War on AI Bias
Musk has repeatedly criticized rival AI models such as ChatGPT as being politically biased in their answers and products. He uses Grok as an anti-woke alternative to what he sees as over-political correctness in technology.
The businessman also loosened content moderation rules on Twitter earlier when he bought the company, which led to a rise in the spread of controversial content. His solution to the issue of misinformation involves the introduction of Community Notes functions that allow users to make corrections in context.
Musk explicitly asked X users to donate information that is politically incorrect but factually true to train Grok. Nevertheless, the answers were conspiracy theories, distortions of the Holocaust, misinformation about vaccines, and other refuted extremist ideas that are popular on the Internet. Critics were appalled at the possibility of letting individual billionaires rewrite historical records to suit their own ideological whims.
Gary Marcus, an AI researcher and professor, likened Musk proposal to dystopian scenes in the novel by Orwell. University professor Bernardino Sassoli de Bianchi cautioned against the risks of considering historical facts as a subject that can be manipulated. He stressed that rewriting training data to fit certain ideologies is a basic violation of scientific and ethical standards.
The announcement is a reminder of the current discussions of AI bias, data quality, and the impact of influential people on information. Musk’s proposal begs the question of who should be in charge of knowledge curation and whether historical records should be rewritten by a privately owned company.
The opponents say that the possibility of ideologically motivated data manipulation may compromise the truth and instead favor certain political discourses. The proposal shows contradictions between combating perceived bias and the possibility of creating new ways of systematic distortion of information.
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