cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37252048

Letter.

Musk has marketed Grok as an “unfiltered” and “truth-seeking” chatbot that does not subscribe to politically correct standards. Grok has been known to provide inaccurate information when asked about historical events and natural disasters, including wrong names, dates, and details of events. While erroneous responses are a common pitfall of all generative AI, Grok is unique because Musk has called on X users to help train Grok, who then posted conspiracy theories and disinformation. Grok recently “engaged in Holocaust denial and repeatedly brought up false claims of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa.” Grok also does not appear to apply customary safety filters to its responses and “will happily give you advice on how to commit murders and terrorist attacks.”

The lack of safety features has also resulted in Grok creating antisemitic and other offensive content. Days after Musk boasted on social media about significant improvements to the xAI chatbot, “Grok was calling itself ‘MechaHitler’” and recommending a second Holocaust to neo-Nazi accounts.

According to a former Pentagon contracting official, the xAI contract “came out of nowhere,” when other companies had been under consideration for months. Analysts have also indicated that “xAI [did not] have the kind of reputation or track record that typically leads to lucrative government contracts.” During his time as a special government employee, Musk had access to sensitive government contracting, national security, and personnel data.

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    8 hours ago

    I just saw a post where grok was saying that the video of CK bring shot was a meme and that CK was perfectly fine

    I mean of course they should integrate this into every system.in the US army

    I’m looking forward to the Wikipedia article about that army that utterly destroyed itself with sheer stupidity

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      6 hours ago

      The ai industry is trying to create a dependency on itself before the bubble bursts. That’s all this is. Business majors running scams.

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    5 hours ago

    Same country that has many state bans on boycotting Israel. This same country wants the mechahitler from an actual Nazi in charge?

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    9 hours ago

    Imagine trying to explain this timeline 20 years ago to any sane person. It would sound like some dystopian science fiction conjured up from a fever dream.

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      7 hours ago

      “Let me get this straight… you decided you do want to build skynet, and you chose the AI that identifies as mechahitler to run it?”

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      8 hours ago

      Sort of, I called most of this before 20 years back, what I got wrong was thinking the worse guys would be more capable.

      Also even though I knew each party was going to get worse every cycle, and that the Democrats would be worthless, and I did call that however worthless we thought the Democrats were going to be, they were going to be even worse than that, that they were still worse than how much worse I thought they were going to be than worth less.

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      8 hours ago

      We have societal collapse preceding climate change rocking the world until the rich blot out the sun with geo engineering before all of that.

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    11 hours ago

    May it all be for naught and America collapses due to its own dysfunction and corruption, the world has suffered the American establishment enough.

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      7 hours ago

      I don’t want America to collapse, I would like for America to drop all these MAGA politicians who are ruining their country.

      Just look at how stupid it was to raid the Hyundai plant. And threatening Canada and Greenland which has put the US at odds with their allies.

      They’d get better trade deals if they didn’t burn literally all goodwill and trust while trying to strong arm the whole world. But now everyone is trying to diversify as much as possible from the US.

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      12 hours ago

      Wishful thinking. I want you to go have a look at DTS and then tell me you think having to use a racist chatbot to access some information is going to collapse the system.

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    8 hours ago

    Seeing as Warren did not question why she would stay in the race to split the non-establishment vote while all the establishment candidates dropped out and endorsed Biden in 2020 I really don’t give a fuck what she does now. She split the reform minded vote in doomed us. Ignorance is no excuse, I don’t care if she thought Biden was the safe choice. She should have known that was not the case, I did.