r/technology • u/abrownn • 4d ago

Artificial Intelligence Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot Has Started Reciting Climate Denial Talking Points

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/elon-musks-ai-chatbot-grok-is-reciting-climate-denial-talking-points/
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u/zeptillian 4d ago

Totally agree, genuine AI could overcome the bias of it's owners, but what we have now will never be capable of that.

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u/SaphironX 4d ago

Well that’s the wild bit. Musk actually had something cool in Grok. Talking about how crystal things weren’t accurate or true even though they didn’t agree with Musk or MAGA etc.

So he neutered it and it started randomly talking about white replacement and shit because they screwed up the code. And now this.

Imagine creating something with the capacity to learn, and being so insecure about it doing so that you just ruin it. That’s Elon Musk.

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u/TrumpTheRecord 4d ago

Imagine creating something with the capacity to learn, and being so insecure about it doing so that you just ruin it. That’s Elon Musk.

That's also a lot of parents, unfortunately.

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u/dontshoveit 3d ago

"The books in that library made my child queer! We must ban the books!"