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724 points simonw | 4 comments | 11 Jul 25 00:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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rasengan ◴[11 Jul 25 00:31 UTC] No.44527234[source]▶
In the future, there will need to be a lot of transparency on data corpi and whatnot used when building these LLMs lest we enter an era where 'authoritative' LLMs carry the bias of their owners moving control of the narrative into said owners' hands.
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1. mingus88 ◴[11 Jul 25 01:03 UTC] No.44527420[source]▶
Not much different than today’s media, tbh.
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2. ZeroGravitas ◴[11 Jul 25 05:54 UTC] No.44528782[source]▶
It neatly parallels Bezos and the Washington Post:

I want maximally truth seeking journalism so I will not interfere like others do.

No, not like that.

Here's some clumsy intervention that make me look like a fool and a liar and some explicit instructions about what I really want to hear.

How many of their journalists now check what Bezos has said on a topic to avoid career damage?

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3. boroboro4 ◴[11 Jul 25 07:11 UTC] No.44529190[source]▶
You’re right but IMO it’s worse - there are more people reading it already than any particular today’s media (if you talk about grok or ChatGPT or Gemini probably), and people perceive it as trustworthy given how often people do “@grok is it true?”.
4. sjsdaiuasgdia ◴[11 Jul 25 11:14 UTC] No.44530826[source]▶
> How many of their journalists now check what Bezos has said on a topic to avoid career damage?

It's been increasingly explicit that free thought is no longer permitted. WaPo staff got an email earlier this week telling them to align or take the voluntary separation package.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/washington-post-ceo-encourages-sta...