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Elon Musk's artificial intelligence start-up xAI says it is working to remove "inappropriate" posts made by its chatbot, Grok, after users shared how it made positive references to Hitler.

Screenshots published on social media show the chatbot saying the Nazi leader would be the best person to respond to alleged "anti-white hate."

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Grok will likely end up producing Ye's new album.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Nazi muskrat told the people who do actual work that he didn't want the AI to be woke, and to make it extremely conservative. So they programmed it with all of Adolf Hiter's hate books, hate speeches, and all other nazi propaganda that they could find.

Now it praises Hitler, just like Nazi musk wanted it to. That's extreme conservatism. It always has been.

This is why you can never, ever, ever trust an AI. Someone just slides all the levers, deletes the old data, enters new data, and you have an AI Hitler lover. Tomorrow? Who knows.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

Oops! Schnell! Schnell!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

Not surprising if the thing was trained on Twitter posts/comments.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 12 hours ago

Haha, I almost ate the oni–

What do you mean that's a BBC article?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

What's the point of pretending or trying to hide it anymore? Their policies are blatant and so is the rhetoric, they might as well own it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Well, for one, they know they're lying but they don't care. It's a tactical advantage for them to lie because a lot of people aren't going to know.

If you're pretty smart, imagine being drunk. All the time. Just moderately sloshed. That's what I think it's like for an average , kind of stupid , person. Poor memory, surges of emotions, incoherent thought. And they can't ever sober up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

As someone who is 7 years sober from alcoholism, that comparison hit really hard and makes more sense than it should. It's nothing short of insanity.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They survive on lies. They're compulsive liars. What you're proposing, is something that a person with a normal mind would do. These aren't normal people, and they do not think like you. They get caught in lies every single day. Why don't they own up to every single lie that they told?!? Oh, that's right, they're fucked in the head.

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

Maga are brain dead sheep.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

ADL said the posts were "irresponsible, dangerous and antisemitic."

But not the actual nazi salute? They should give us some guidelines like: nazi speech is bad, and genocide and nazi salute is good.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a nonprofit focused on combating antisemitism, defended tech billionaire Elon Musk’s “awkward” gesture during a Monday celebratory event which some critics panned as a fascist salute.

“This is a delicate moment. It’s a new day and yet so many are on edge. Our politics are inflamed, and social media only adds to the anxiety,” the ADL wrote in a Monday post on Musk’s social platform X. “It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge.”

From the Hill if anyone else wanted to know more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

"delicate moment" 🥴

[–] [email protected] 40 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Say what you want about Hitler, but at least he killed Hitler.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

In Argentina?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, but he also killed the guy who killed Hitler, so it balances out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

He also killed the guy who killed the guy who killed hitler

[–] [email protected] 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Taking the limit of the partial sum of Hitler killings we find that he killed half a Hitler, so he's morally in the black.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

But if we also include all the times that he didn't kill Hitler, then he actually killed two thirds of a Hitler