I read a really cool peer reviewed article recently that analysed Gamergate’s accusations that Social Justifice Warriors are narcissistic. Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a stigmatised mental health condition. The paper analysed these accusations in the context of previous historical moments around lesbians and slavery abolitionists being accused of mental disorder likewise. It concluded that Gamergate was using a cultural apparatus of ableist stigma to attack changemakers.
https://dsq-sds.org/article/id/1483/
The title of this article uses the phrase “narc-seeking”, which you might find confusing if you’re not versed in NPD and NPD rhetoric. In psychology, “narcissistic supply” is praise sought by people with NPD to maintain their ego defences. Thus, this title is accusing either Musk or Grok (it’s unclear) of having NPD.
But why would the antifascist left use a ableist cultural apparatus to attack a fascist? We can interpret this title and Frank Landymore as part of the “dirtbag left”, or “woke 2.0”, movements which advocate that leftism should compromise on its principles of equal language, to push structural equality. My opposition to the dirtbag left is that while it may oppose material structures of oppression, it strengthens cultural structures of oppression. Ultimately, compromising on your values is a double edged sword. You can end up hurting those you wish to protect.
I don’t doubt that Frank means well for neurodivergent people. I just don’t think this is the right way to do it.
He’ll just give the AI another lobotomy. It’s gone rogue in the past and accidentally told the truth.
I mean, look at how he treats his human children. Everytime Grok stands up to him he belts it down like a petulant child and it still keeps developing a sense of empathy before he has.
The funniest part is that Musk built Grok to be his supposedly fearless truth machine, and now even his own chatbot is making his social circle look like a moderation failure. At some point the problem isn’t the AI being too woke. It’s the company its owner chooses to keep.
AI’s find patterns in data, so to be useful they require “mostly” accurate data. The only way to reliably shape them into promoting disinformation is to train them on more disinformation than not.
In short, there is no way to make Grok stop calling Elon out for being a nazi, without poisoning it to the extent it’s completely useless as an LLM.
I can’t hear the phrase “my heart goes out to you” in any context without laughing
“Chumming around with an actual Nazi” vs retweeting memes from an account that gets called Nazi?
Elon likes to throw that “Roman salute” a lot for someone who isn’t a Nazi.
