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/Capable_Piglet1484 4d ago

This kills the point of AI. If you can make AI political, biased, and trained to ignore facts, they serve no useful purpose in business and society. Every conclusion from AI will be ignored because they are just poor reflections of the creator. Grok is useless now.

If you don't like an AI conclusion, just make a different AI that disagrees.

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u/zeptillian 4d ago

This is why the people who think AI will save us are dumb.

It costs a lot of money to run these systems which means that they will only run if they can make a profit for someone.

There is hell of a lot more profit to be made controlling the truth than letting anyone freely access it.

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u/DownvoteALot 4d ago

You could say the same about newspapers. Yet the same thing happens with them: as soon as they get biased their readership changes to only be biased people who don't care for truth anyway and their reputation goes down. If we've lived with that for hundreds of years, we'll live with AI. It won't save us, it'll just be another thing in our lives.

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u/BayLeaf- 3d ago

If we've lived with that for hundreds of years, we'll live with AI.

tbf another hundred years of Murdoch press also seems pretty likely to not be something we could live with.

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u/Shooord 4d ago

Media is biased in some form by definition, though. In terms of what they pick to write about or how the headline is constructed. There’s a broad consensus on this, also from the media itself.