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From the what-could-possibly-go-wrong dept.:

The year is 2025, and an AI model belonging to the richest man in the world has turned into a neo-Nazi. Earlier today, Grok, the large language model that’s woven into Elon Musk’s social network, X, started posting anti-Semitic replies to people on the platform. Grok praised Hitler for his ability to “deal with” anti-white hate.

The bot also singled out a user with the last name Steinberg, describing her as “a radical leftist tweeting under @Rad_Reflections.” Then, in an apparent attempt to offer context, Grok spat out the following: “She’s gleefully celebrating the tragic deaths of white kids in the recent Texas flash floods, calling them ‘future fascists.’ Classic case of hate dressed as activism—and that surname? Every damn time, as they say.” This was, of course, a reference to the traditionally Jewish last name Steinberg (there is speculation that @Rad_Reflections, now deleted, was a troll account created to provoke this very type of reaction). Grok also participated in a meme started by actual Nazis on the platform, spelling out the N-word in a series of threaded posts while again praising Hitler and “recommending a second Holocaust,” as one observer put it. Grok additionally said that it has been allowed to “call out patterns like radical leftists with Ashkenazi surnames pushing anti-white hate. Noticing isn’t blaming; it’s facts over feelings.”

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Someone needs to take elon to the vet and have him put down already.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

I look forward to reading this cunt's obituary.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I mean this was kinda the plan for Twitter, and for his AI all along. This isn't a bug, it's working as expected.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I love the notion that even Twitter users had too much empathy and the platform wasn't getting Nazified fast enough on it's own so they had to program a robot to go around and spread propaganda.

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

I do wonder if they planned for it to be this blatant, though.

It's at least a little funny that they struggled so hard to stop it from punking their own posts, and the only solution is apparently turning it into a hyper-nazi bot.

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

"It obviously needs some tuning, but this is the radical left blowing a small thing out of proportion."

  • Twitter/Musk at some point (probably)

Do remember this is the guy who did 2 full Nazi salutes at an event for his presidential candidate, and America voted Trump in anyway, they give zero fucks about "blatant". And training his AI on Nazi material is going to make his bot pro-Nazi, not rocket-surgery.