AI values – Gig City Geek https://gigcitygeek.com Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:16:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://gigcitygeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/cropped-GigCityGeek_Logo-32x32.png AI values – Gig City Geek https://gigcitygeek.com 32 32 LLMs and the Arms Race: A Distraction? https://gigcitygeek.com/2026/04/15/ai-alignment-rlhf-biases-and-the-arms-race/ https://gigcitygeek.com/2026/04/15/ai-alignment-rlhf-biases-and-the-arms-race/#respond Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://gigcitygeek.com/?p=3620 Folks, let’s be honest – the relentless stream of new, bigger, faster data, and computing power. And a lot of that is going into optimizing for the next flashy demo, not necessarily solving real-world problems.

My son, the PC Gamer, would wax lyrical about the VRAM, but I’m thinking, “Are we actually solving anything, or just building bigger, faster sandcastles?”

The Public Cost: A Slow Erosion of Trust

Here’s the thing that keeps me up at night: we’re training these models on everything. Every conversation, every piece of text, every image. It’s a massive, uncurated dataset, and we’re essentially letting