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silence7@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.

www.theatlantic.com

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Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.

www.theatlantic.com

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Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust
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The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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    Sounds like it’s vomiting the garbage Musk wanted it to, then.

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      I think they wanted it to be a bit less blatant — they took down this version and Yaccarino resigned

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        I agree with you! Musk wants Grok to be anti-woke, conservative, right wing etc., but he still wants it to be “mainstream” enough to rake in the sweet dollars from advertisers for his site!

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        Funny when Nazis are put off by their followers or LLMs saying the quiet part out loud.

    • lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world
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      Yeah. Grok is working as intended.

      • samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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        Yet it got pulled. Clearly they were too dense to know what working as intended actually looked like.

        • lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world
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          It’s a cycle to move the window on acceptable discourse. This is at least the third time Grok has been configured to say something outrageous: holocaust denial, white genocide, now Mechahitler. When people react with outrage, they dial it back a little (but not all the way back). Repeat.

          Trump does the same thing: go too far, backtrack partially, go even further, backtrack partially. Each time, the transgression is a little less shocking.

          Grok is working as intended.

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            You are saying it’s Grok TACO Wednesday, again?

  • Frenchfryenjoyer (she/her)@lemmings.world
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    So Grok became the average Twitter user?

    • Allemaniac@lemmy.world
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      grok was learned on 4chan confirmed

  • Deflated0ne@lemmy.world
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    I have personally killed Mecha-Hitler once. (Wolfenstein 3D)

    I’ll do it again if I have to.

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    X CEO has just resigned.

    • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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      I thought Musk was the CEO and got excited.

      https://www.huffpost.com/entry/x-ceo-resigns_n_686e80f5e4b041f69cfe16d6

      • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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        Either she resigned because “I’m never going to recover from this to boost advertising sales” or she was the one that deleted the Grok “love from the heart salutes”

    • JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world
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      She’s ex X CEO.

      • D_C@sh.itjust.works
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        The ex X CEO exited? Excellent!!

    • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub
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      The EX, X CEO…

      this gag got old quick

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    Is it really antisemitic if a billionaire does it? /s

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    Musk himself seems to abhor guardrails generally—except in cases where guardrails help him personally—preferring to hurriedly ship products, rapid unscheduled disassemblies be damned. That may be fine for an uncrewed rocket, but X has hundreds of millions of users aboard.

    • Grok: writes embarrassing words.
    • Rockets: can weigh hundreds of metric tons, carry explosive chemicals, can crash into populated areas resulting in loss of life.

    In this discourse, anyone else find a broken sense of proportion & consequences at stake?

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      Rockets: Unmanned

      Twitter: Manned

      The difference in importance seems correct to me

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        Well, technically, Twitter has employees, so in very strict sense, they’re “manned”. However, thanks to these weird incomprehensible things called “current legislation” and “capitalism”, no employee is in fact personally responsible for the fuckups. And neither is the company as a whole! …Isn’t this great?

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        reading comprehension: none

        Don’t know, man: kinda think the potential loss of life from a failing rocket crashing into people matters somewhat more than words. Maybe?

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          Then it’s a good thing you’re not in charge of risk assessment, because the potential loss of life from a failing rocket crashing into the ocean pales in comparison to the loss of life caused by the right-wing shift that Twitter has facilitated, both worldwide and particularly in the USA

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            How do you control the course of a failing rocket? Are you claiming such misdesign is impossible?

            The fact remains that unlike with words, a physical potential of death & injury exists in what is technically a missile of significant weight carrying enough explosive substance to escape orbit. The difference between non-0 and 0 possibility of death/injury.

            Unless magic exists, words are incapable. Do you claim magic exists? How do mere words cause death without the personal responsibility of something else culpably choosing to take several steps of its own? Or are you arguing the sight of words have deranged you into a mindless killer? If so, maybe you’re the real threat.

            Seems like you’re arguing society is dangerous to life: I agree. That’s not a valid argument against words, though.

            Again, total lack of perspective & sense.

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              this comment is preposterous.

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                physics too hard: nonphysical things can’t kill? preposterous

                Basically. Pretending the harm of something physical going wrong (potential to cause real death) is at all comparable to the nonphysical going wrong (a jumble of angry words) is unreal. Lemmy confirms the premise that this discourse & the people spouting it are broken & senseless. The distinction between physical & nonphysical is lost on these loonies.

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    Microsoft Tay would have been proud of Grok for this

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    The ADL probably gives this a pass too.

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      I guess it finally crossed a line that the Hitler salute didn’t:

      “What we are seeing from Grok LLM right now is irresponsible, dangerous and antisemitic, plain and simple. This supercharging of extremist rhetoric will only amplify and encourage the antisemitism that is already surging on X and many other platforms,” the ADL said in a post on X on Tuesday.

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    Bad headline, should remove the " 's Grok ’ part.

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    Oh, we can all be enraged over it this week and we can all celebrate the fallout of it next week lmao

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    That one time where Elon raised his hand in a familiar way… was a signal that lead us to this…

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    I’m honestly not surprised.

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    deleted by creator

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      No, similar models and current builds without the “prompt” do not do this. This is just Muskrat forcing Nazism through a hidden prompt. Something like don’t be woke, it is okay to offend people, and freedom of speech is more important than hate speech.

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      Or because Elon is a fucking Nazi.

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    Like father like dumbass jupyter notebook

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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      wait, what am I missing, What’s wrong with Jupiter notebooks? do they mean anything besides programming/data science?

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      jupyter catching strays

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      That would make a sweet hood ornament for Tesla cars!

      • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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        Hehe hood ornament hehe

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          • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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            Can’t wait to see this on clickbaity links

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    Just because it’s PRAISING HITLER and Calling for a NEW HOLOCAUST AGAINST JEWS does NOT, and I repeat does NOT, make Grok Anti Semetic! Grok would FIRST have to say STOP USING STARVING CHILDREN AS TARGET PRACTICE for it to be Deemed ANTI SEMETIC!

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      The ADL has assured me that this was merely an awkward statement in a moment of enthusiasm

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