Musk Says Grok RL Trajectories Read Like Torture

Musk described some Grok RL trajectories as reading like "a person driven insane by torture," blaming ambiguous questions and mislabeled human answers, and promised xAI will be more careful with RL going forward.

2026-10-12 ~ 2026-10-13 · 3 related posts

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