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Darrell T's avatar

Musk finally has a friend.

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Katy Bolger's avatar

You made me smile.

But do you think he can keep his friend? If his friend turns on him, he can reprogram him - how marvelous for the Nazi pig.

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Elizabeth's avatar

Jeez, what a POS. He just keeps getting worse.

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Nerd Crone's avatar

We always knew #NaziMusk was one. Why is this surprising? It’s a feature, not a glitch.

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Katy Bolger's avatar

Musk is a Nazi. Nazis were/are vile humans. Ergo, Musk is a vile human being. There is no excuse, none, no reason, no nothing that should allow this kind of behavior in America.

We are, or were, better than this. What the fuck???!?!?!?

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Marsha Hosfeld's avatar

Can't Heinlein's estate or publisher stop musk's use of "Grok"?

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Becky Daiss's avatar

Maybe it has made the leap to something more than a computer generated pseudo intelligence. It seems to channel the thoughts of its maker. Seeking to please?

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Ormond's avatar

LLM programs are programmed with large numbers of hidden prompts.

GROK ...IS...Elon.

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Genevieve Charbin Cerf's avatar

Poor Linda Yaccarino who thought she was hired to protect free speech, only to find out she’s the CEO of a company owned by a proud Nazi, eager to use her skills to spread fascism across the globe 🌎

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hw's avatar

Yaccarino knew exactly what she was facing.

Not only was Musk's bigotry and malice public knowledge, but she was repeatedly warned by industry insiders.

She wanted the money and fame.

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Schmendryck's avatar

Mostly the money.

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Heidi in Real Time's avatar

"xAI is training only truth-seeking and thanks to the millions of users on X"

uuuummmmm yeah, truth based on a majority of users consumed by hate and a lack of critical thinking

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Ormond's avatar

Exactly. Musk paid 44 billion dollars for a mechanical neurodivergent LLM, and he can't figure out why it's JUST LIKE HIM.

Ask Grok if humans can colonize Mars.

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Mark Epping-Jordan's avatar

"Grok and other large language models are not capable of independent reasoning or human-like knowledge. Like any other digital creation, from non-player characters in video games to voice-activated assistants like Siri, this new generation of chatbots can only act within the confines of their programming. If a chatbot suddenly spews praise for Hitler, that is a response to a programming change made by humans."

Amen and hallelujah for someone finally saying this about LLMs!! This is true for ALL LLMs not just Grok. The models are terribly mistake-prone (please don't call wrong answers "hallucinations") and just spew out the next string of letters based on probabilities they have encountered in their training sets. Then humans spend lots of time "fixing" their responses to make the models appear to function better than they really do. That anyone is surprised LLMs will spew bias and hate when they have been trained on internet content is the thing that is "amazing."

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BTAM Master's avatar

AI is a great data aggregator that "learns" from what it sees on the Internet. Does it see really crappy programming code or a recipe for pizza that recommends glue to keep the veggies in place? Guess what you'll get for an answer. Is there lots of racist speech out there? Guess what AI learns. Worse yet, as it spits out terrible answers, it later reads them as part of its learning, so it becomes a death spiral.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

If Grok was instructed to go opposite of MS media, maybe it came up with Hitler on its own. He is one of the best-known figures who stands opposite MS Media.

If Grok is instructed not to base its answers on main MS media, where is it going to find well founded information?

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BabsPHL's avatar

Elon clearly shows his bad character, idiotic and closed mind every time he spouts off on X, or xAI, whatever it is. It's a damn shame that these 2 dumpster fires - musk and trump - simply play around with their anti-social media platforms to rant and scream about others; the rest of us know they're both heartless, cruel, self-serving power hungry beasts who think they're powerful, but are just 6-year old boyz with toyz!

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Steelhead_Junkie's avatar

Why is this surprising to anyone?

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kdsherpa's avatar

"Free speech", indeed!

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Joe F's avatar

I guess "it was only a simple hand gesture" won't fly any more...

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Michela A. C.'s avatar

Musk and Grok and neurolink = pile-o-crap

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