Elon Musk has railed on Twitter against what he has called “Woke AI.” He has specifically criticized ChatGPT’s developer, OpenAI, for the features designed to prevent the chatbot from parroting racism and sexism.👈

Now, the billionaire is courting AI researchers with a proposal to start a new AI company to rival the developer of ChatGPT, the tech news site The Information reported on Wednesday.👌

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The racism and sexism of unfiltered LLMs stems from the large quantities of internet data that the AIs were trained on. But a narrative appears to be developing in rightwing areas of the internet—now amplified by Musk—that racism and sexism are desirable features in AI, and that efforts to rid AIs of those biases are yet another form of “censorship” by powerful liberal forces. Influencers on the political right have drawn parallels between these efforts and the measures by social media companies to reduce hate speech and toxicity on their platforms.✍️

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Musk has also voiced alarm at the fast-rising power of AI. “I am a little worried about the AI stuff,” Musk said at a Tesla investor event on Wednesday. “I think it’s something we should be concerned about. […] It’s quite a dangerous technology and I fear I may have done some things to accelerate it.”💢

Jacek Fleszar