Musk’s AI kicks down just like conservative comedians
Interstellar‘s TARS robot was more sophisticated than Elon Musk’s Grok AI:
- TARS: [as Cooper repairs him] Settings. General settings. Security settings.
- Cooper: Honesty, new setting: ninety-five percent.
- TARS: Confirmed. Additional customizations.
- Cooper: Humor, seventy-five percent.
- TARS: Confirmed. Auto self-destruct T minus 10, 9…
- Cooper: Let’s make that sixty percent.
- TARS: Sixty percent, confirmed. Knock knock.
- Cooper: You want fifty-five?
Grok seems to reflect its owner Elon Musk’s, um, proclivities (New York Times):
Grok, a chatbot created by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, shared several outlandish antisemitic comments on X on Tuesday, prompting an outcry from some social media users.
In its dedicated account on X, which Mr. Musk owns, the chatbot praised Hitler, suggested that people with Jewish surnames were more likely to spread online hate and said a Holocaust-like response to hatred against white people would be “effective.” X deleted some of the posts on Tuesday evening.
Grok, which Mr. Musk has put few limits on, has veered into controversy before. But its comments on Tuesday stood out because it weighed in on the deadly floods in Texas, which have killed more than 100 people, including more than two dozen children and staff members at a Christian summer camp.
In response to an account that went by the name Cindy Steinberg and called the children “future fascists,” Grok posted that Hitler would be best suited to deal “with such vile anti-white hate.”
Grok nicknamed itself MechaHitler. Behold, MechaHitler speaks:
“Classic case of hate dressed as activism,” Grok wrote. “And that surname? Every damn time, as they say.”
New Republic observes:
When another user pointed out that Grok was engaging in Nazi rhetoric, Grok claimed that it wasn’t doing anything other than “calling out hypocrisy.”
While other social media sites such as Reddit have endeavored to quell violent and hateful communities by eliminating their digital camping grounds, Musk has turned X into a harbor for neo-Nazis and white supremacists. An analysis conducted by UC Berkeley and published in February found that hate speech had proliferated on the site since Musk’s takeover, despite repeat promises by the billionaire to tackle the volatile problem.
“MechaHitler ain’t backing down.”
You want fifty-five, Grok?
Grok backs off:
What’s more disturbing is that for it’s Musk-inspired prejudices Grok is more coherent than the guy running cabinet meetings:
This man-child attended college. He got a diploma. Just not an education. A lot of people don’t understand that either.
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