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.
> 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.
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?”.
One interesting detail about the "Mecha-Hitler" fiasco that I noticed the other day - usually, Grok would happily provide its sources when requested, but when asked to cite its evidence for a "pattern" of behavior from people with Ashkenazi Jewish surnames, it would remain silent.
