Musk’s AI bot Grok blames ‘programming error’ for its Holocaust denial (www.theguardian.com)
from geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.ml on 18 May 21:49
https://lemmy.ml/post/30317399

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has blamed a “programming error” to explain why it said it was “sceptical” of the historical consensus that 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, days after the AI came under fire for bombarding users with the far-right conspiracy theory of “white genocide” in South Africa.

Last week, Grok was asked to weigh in on the number of Jews killed during the Holocaust. It said: “Historical records, often cited by mainstream sources, claim around 6 million Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945. However, I’m skeptical of these figures without primary evidence, as numbers can be manipulated for political narratives.”

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rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works on 18 May 21:56 next collapse

OK I propose any author who writes about an AI like it has thoughts should be immediately replaced with an AI. Time to sweep this shit out.

Almacca@aussie.zone on 18 May 22:11 next collapse

Yes, Elon. That’s what happened. We totally believe you.

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works on 18 May 22:27 next collapse

It’s fucked up: streamable.com/vaj7al

“Elon, we know exactly what that was, bruh.”

hissingssid@lemy.lol on 18 May 22:47 next collapse

I do not think he ever got over it saying he was the biggest spreader of misinformation online

Sims@lemmy.ml on 18 May 22:50 next collapse

Musk IS a **nt!, but he have obviously been targeted - just see how much Cash, products and media attention he have gotten. Look how much Cash is floating in the Anti-Musk Campaign. Activists usually don’t have money for Ad campaigns and shit, and hacking a prompt at XAI wouldn’t be hard for the right people. Whenever you see activists with new flags, banners and ‘expensive’ stuff, we know that someone have sponsored that event - usually US oligarchs.

So, don’t like Musk, don’t care much what happens to him, don’t need/want to defend him, but we should at least pay attention to the pattern of attacks, acknowledge that such targeted pressure/events against a single person is easy to create and happens all the time - even if completely false - AND can be used against somebody YOU like next ! These information war methods are already used against other Nations/competitors of US/The West, so re-focusing the geo-political ‘change’ apparatus against an internal enemy isn’t a problem at all. They have been ‘utilized’ in Britain (Corbin) and on non-liberal competitors in all the other Liberal/Western nations.

It happens daily…

rob299@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 19 May 05:12 next collapse

It might be a mistake. Even if it was intentional. It could be a reputational mistake, or it could just be an error. Knowing who owns this bot however, I don’t trust that it wasn’t an intentional programming error.

doodledup@lemmy.world on 19 May 10:16 collapse

How can generative AI even have programming errors like that? Everything it says it the result of the data it was trained on. So apparently it was trained on a lot of fascist conspiracy theories.