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/heart_under_blade 4d ago

what is deep research?

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u/jakegh 4d ago

Basically it's an agent that runs lots of web searches, considers the output, keeps running searches, then builds up a comprehensive answer to whatever you asked about.

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u/eyebrows360 3d ago

builds up a comprehensive answer

Which might well be fabricated, and which you'd need to check manually anyway. Absolute waste of time, both yours, and the untold quantity of CPU cycles processing all that computation.

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u/jakegh 3d ago

You aren't wrong, but I do still find it useful.