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[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 minutes ago

Microsoft Tay would have been proud of Grok for this

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

I have personally killed Mecha-Hitler once. (Wolfenstein 3D)

I'll do it again if I have to.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

The ADL probably gives this a pass too.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

So Grok became the average Twitter user?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

grok was learned on 4chan confirmed

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Rockets: Unmanned

Twitter: Manned

The difference in importance seems correct to me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

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?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

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

The fact remains that a physical potential of death & injury exists in what is technically a missile of significant weight carrying enough explosive substance to escape orbit that is entirely absent from words. 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.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Sounds like it's vomiting the garbage Musk wanted it to, then.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah. Grok is working as intended.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Yet it got pulled. Clearly they were too dense to know what working as intended actually looked like.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

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

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