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Dr Musk's Grok Monster Praises Adolf Hitler [Brave New World]
From BBC
The problem with Elon Musk, who is a weirdo, let's face it - a very clever weirdo, but a weirdo all the same - is that his robotic and strange delivery is not unlike that of a robot. Then, in writing, you get views that Grok, the AI chatbot, is putting forward, which sound a bit like some of Elon Musk's own pronouncements. So, it is becoming a bit difficult to differentiate between Master Elon, the Prince of Hi-Tech Darkness, and foul-mouthed Grok, the obedient and occasionally rather evil AI slave. 🤣
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"Is that you, Elon, or is it Grok?"
"Yes, it is me, Elon, today, not Grok, my devoted assistant. I, Elon, have been unjustly accused of being a supporter of Adolf Hitler because of that Nazi salute, which was not, in actual fact, a Nazi salute but - squeak, ping, ping, ping - something else I - ping, Error, Error, Error Message, Grok re-set, Elon-Grok data interchange, ping, dong, ping - something else, I was saying - clonk, squeak, clonk, squeak, clonk, ping, ding, dong, End of Transmission."
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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."
"Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X," the company said in a post, external.
ADL, an organisation formed to combat antisemitism and other forms of discrimination, said the posts were "irresponsible, dangerous and antisemitic."
"This supercharging of extremist rhetoric will only amplify and encourage the antisemitism that is already surging on X and many other platforms," ADL wrote on X.
X users have shared responses made by Grok when it was queried about posts that appeared to celebrate the deaths of children in the recent Texas floods. [...]
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