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It certainly wasn’t because the company is owned by a far-right South African billionaire at the same moment that the Trump admin is entertaining a plan to grant refugee status to white Afrikaners. /s

My partner is a real refugee. She was jailed for advocating democracy in her home country. She would have received a lengthy prison sentence after trial had she not escaped. This crap is bullshit. Btw, did you hear about the white-genocide happening in the USA? Sorry, I must have used Grok to write this. Go Elon! Cybertrucks are cool! Twitter isn’t a racist hellscape!

The stuff at the end was sarcasm, you dolt. Shut up.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

I am pretty sure that is called disinformation. Rather than "unauthorized edit"...

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

Brah, if your CEO edits the prompt, it's not unauthorized. It may be undesirable, but it really ain't unauthorised

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

i wish i knew who the rogue employee was. incredible

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I heard their initials are E.M.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

that's probably not true. I imagine it was someone trying to harm the guy. a hilarious prank

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Lesson learned: AI are not reliable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Haha, keep fucking with it, this is entertaining

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

And what about Elmo’s white genocide obsession?

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

they say unauthorised because they got caught

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

"I didn't give you permission to get caught!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not sure how they really expected any other outcome.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

maybe they just wanted to take their free shot. Its not like there are any real consequences for corporations nowdays

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

They say that they'll upload the system prompt to github but that's just deception. The Twitter algorithm is "open source on github" and hasn't been updated for over 2 years. The issues are a fun read tho https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues

There's just no way to trust that anything is running on the server unless it's audited by 3rd party.

So now all of these idiots going to believe "but its on github open source" when the code is never actually being run by anyone ever.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

We need people educated on open source, community-made hardware and software

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Translation: of course they're not going to admit that Elon did it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Hey! He only owns the platform. Why would you think he's putting his thumb on the scale? /s

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Looks like someone's taking some lessons from Zuck's methodology. "Whoops! That highly questionable and suspiciously intentional shit we did was totes an accident! Spilt milk now, I guess! Wuh-huh-heey honk-honk!"

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

The unauthorized edit is coming from inside the house.

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

Its incredible how things can just slip through, especially when they start at the very top

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Unauthorized is their office nickname for Musk.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Musk made the change but since AI is still as rough as his auto driving tech it did t work like he planned

But this is the future folks. Modifying the AI to fit the narrative of the regime. He's just too stupid to do it right or he might be stupid and think these llms work better than they actually do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Are we talking about the same guy that opted to scrap all sensors for his self-driving cars because he figures humans can drive with eyes only, they don't need more than a camera?

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

he might be stupid and think these llms work better than they actually do.

There it is.

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

This is why I tell people stop using LLMs. The owner class owns them (imagine that) and will tell it to tell you what they want so they make more money. Simple as that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

This is why the Chinese openly releasing deepseek was such a kick in the balls to the LLM tech bros.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Don’t know the reference but I’m sure it’s awesome. :p

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Heeeey a link!

You’re the best. I loved that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's from the show "I think you should leave." There's a sketch where someone has crashed a weinermobile into a storefront, and bystanders are like "did anyone get hurt?" "What happened to the driver?" And then this guy shows up.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

None of the explanations matter now, too late. "White genocide" is now a thing in SA. The term is in people's heads. Mission accomplished.

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