Grok Full Of It

Elon Musk edges out LeBron James when it comes to holistic fitness, takes the crown over Jerry Seinfeld when it comes to being funny, rivals DaVinci and Newton when it comes to intelligence, could beat Mike Tyson in a boxing match, and (not that you asked) would dominate in a p-ss drinking contest. The Verge: Grok’s Elon Musk worship is getting weird. This all seems funny and ridiculous, and it is. But it’s also very serious, as these AI chat programs are the new search; the place where millions of people get their information. And the falsehoods aren’t limited to Elon’s ego. France will investigate Musk’s Grok chatbot after Holocaust denial claims. Suggesting Elon could beat up Mike Tyson? Funny. A widely used AI program run by the world’s richest heil-er indicating “that gas chambers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp were designed for ‘disinfection with Zyklon B against typhus’ rather than for mass murder.” Not funny.

+ And it’s not just Grok. Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites a neo-Nazi website 42 times. “Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s online encyclopedia, Grokipedia, cites the neo-Nazi website Stormfront as a source 42 times and relies on other websites that experts have shunned as unreliable or hate-filled.”

+ “What’s undeniable is that we’re all living in a world where the whims and desires of wealthy and powerful men create uncertain, unstable conditions for everyone else. Although no other major chatbot has gone ballistic in the same ways as Grok, any one of them could be subtly tweaked to promote a given viewpoint over another, or to quietly manipulate users toward whatever purpose.” The Atlantic (Gift Article): Elon Musk Is Trying to Rewrite History. “Why did Grok say he’s better than Jesus?” (Probably just more antisemitism…)