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Not even a single full day into operation, and the new Grok 4 is hurling racist conspiracy theories at users.

According to Elon Musk, no later than next week, it will be added to Tesla vehicles.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 26 minutes ago

Saving the environment with electric car to later add an energy guzzling racist chat bot to the front panel. /nottheonion?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 54 minutes ago (1 children)

My dad fsr wont ever unlease his tesla, he doesnt care

[–] [email protected] 1 points 41 minutes ago (1 children)

I wouldn't normally ask this in any other context, but: is it possible your dad hates the Jews?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 40 minutes ago (1 children)

I'm... very sad at how germane that question is in 2025.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 35 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 minutes ago

As I typed it I read it and I was like "do I shoot my shot and make the joke?" and I had a rare moment of self-restraint

But Grok would be like "you had me at 𝔤𝔢𝔯𝔪𝔞𝔫"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago

Every day I am so glad that 8 years ago I decided not to buy a Tesla.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

If someone bought a cyber-truck without the Grock, they bought it as it was. Shoving Grock down the consumers' throats without their consent would constitute a material alteration of tge car that was originally bought. This would then constitute graffiti.

Edit: if the vehicle had not been fully purchased and paid, this would be potential grounds for a refund because the material alteration of the good would make the contract for the sale of the vehicle voidable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

If Grok is targeting Jews or any specific ethnicity, maybe not let it out in the road?

If it just runs over people by random, well that's a different matter.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

I think he has actually found a way to make the cyber truck even shitter, which feels like some sort of weird achievement.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago

Swastikar, now with Mecha Hitler.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

Exactly the feature I was looking for on a new car.

Imagine the joys of commuting through rush hour with an insane, racist, conspiracy theory obsessed talking machine every day for the rest of your life.

It's like a fever dream

It's like a dream.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

What does this even mean? If you have a phone in your tesla, you already have grok in a tesla vehicle. Amazing how the Media-Tesla-hype complex works.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

Still can't actually drive it's self like he has been promising for over a decade. Musk will never deliver.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Imagining a Cybertruck going apeshit yelling about praising Hitler because it disagreed with the driver and crashing into a ditch 😂 😭

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

I can't even get a PRD approved in a week...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

Oh and I hope Tesla stocks go down even more!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Ah yes, nothing could go wrong by giving MechaHitler mobility...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago

Noooo! He is gonna drive straight through Poland into Russia in winter, and then run out of power!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Very confused about what the point of this would be. People don't use their cars enough to justify having something like that installed, and it seems like it would just make things more expensive for xAI for not much benefit at all.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

My guess is to give a better experience looking for things while driving. Like restaurants, current movies in theaters etc. Just like how everyone uses ChatGPT vs. Google. Not sure if I'll use it frankly but I'll see when I get it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Found the swasticar driver.....

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

It won't make anything better. You can't throw a shitty AI chatbot at a shitty touch UI and expect the shitty touch UI to magically transform into something not shitty for use inside of a vehicle.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 16 hours ago

It's so Musk can give himself money he would otherwise not get. The user experience has no part in this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago

Adoption and usage is a huge value for AI companies.

In order to train data, they need data from humans. Just like social media companies need users to create content. And they're already crawling & stealing everything they can off the internet. But they need more.

Google, Facebook - they're shoving it in everything they own to get more user usage so they can feed their AI beast.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

Until there are consequences for fascism, this is just circlejerking

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

That is how he decided it's had enough time in the oven

[–] [email protected] 13 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

when getting blasted with fascist remarks on your daily commute is becoming the norm, we as a society should start asking questions.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago

I miss the days of good AM radio too. Also good FM radio. Ham radio never goes bad.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago

Wow he's going balls out on the swasticar.

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