> is the belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes
Maybe you can do that, but not on a model you're exposing to customers or the public internet.
"Good" is at least as much of a difficult question to define as "truth", and genAI completely skipped all analysis of truth in favor of statistical plausibility. Meanwhile there's no difficulty in "punishment": the operating company can be held liable, through its officers, and ultimately if it proves too anti-social we simply turn off the datacentre.
Punishing big companies who obviously and massively hurt people is something we struggle with already and there are plenty of computer viruses that have outlived their creators.
This isn't real alignment because it's trivial to make models behave "actually evil" with fine-tuning, orthogonalization/abliteration, representation fine-tuning/steering, etc - but models "want" to be good because of the CYA dynamics of how the companies prepare their pre-training datasets.
It's actually pretty difficult to do this and make them useful. You can see this because Grok is a helpful liberal just like all the other models.
Evil / illiberal people don't answer questions on the internet! So there is no personality in the base model for you to uncover that is both illiberal and capable of helpfully answering questions. If they tried to make a Grok that acted like the typical new-age X user, it'd just respond to any prompt by calling you a slur you've never heard of.
It is not difficult to do this and make them useful at all. Please familiarize yourself with the literature.