Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names. (www.theatlantic.com)
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jordanlund@lemmy.world on 08 Jul 23:59 next collapse

I think the top link is busted, it just goes to the red image on a loop.

silence7@slrpnk.net on 09 Jul 00:07 collapse

There’s a preview of that, but link points to www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/…/683463/?…

Reverendender@sh.itjust.works on 09 Jul 00:19 next collapse

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standarduser@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 Jul 00:29 next collapse

Yikes

Tracaine@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 00:39 next collapse

Tay has returned.

AbidanYre@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 00:52 collapse

But this time it was intentional.

Ulrich@feddit.org on 09 Jul 00:55 next collapse

Pretty sure you can get it to say just about anything with the right prompts.

People need to stop acting like Grok is a sentient being.

silence7@slrpnk.net on 09 Jul 01:25 next collapse

It was modified to make these kinds of responses much more likely

notarobot@lemmy.zip on 09 Jul 04:47 collapse

I do not think so. Answers are statistical. Anything can come up. Except that whenever someone get something odd. It gets reported like AI is the president

EvilBit@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 05:15 next collapse

You literally don’t know what the word “statistical” means.

[deleted] on 09 Jul 05:38 next collapse

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notarobot@lemmy.zip on 09 Jul 05:39 collapse

Really? Please. Enlighten me.

Biyoo@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 09 Jul 05:40 next collapse

Statistical doesn’t mean it can’t spit out what they want.

They can train or fine tune the AI for praising Hitler, they can alter the default prompt to hit a more right wing dataset, they can have filters that retry when the answers are not what Musk expects…

There are a ton of ways to get fascist output from an AI.

notarobot@lemmy.zip on 09 Jul 05:47 collapse

Look at that. It was you who didn’t understood the word. So much so that what you just said does not contradict what I said.

Yes. An AI can be tuned to praise Hitler. But I think it’s more likely that someone by chance got a fascist output or that they purposely promoted it to provide a fascist output and then went “OMG. I can believe it produce a fascist output”

I’m not defending musk nor grok. My basis for that statement is that it is a pattern that the “let’s report and AI output” is a pattern you see for every AI.

Biyoo@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 09 Jul 06:19 collapse

I see, I did misread your comment.

You meant something like : it’s not more racist than before, it’s just a random fascist output that got blown out of proportion.

And there has to be fascist outputs since it’s statistical and there is fascism in the training data.

So I have no idea, I don’t use grok, not sure if they edited their AI for that further recently or not.

96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl on 09 Jul 10:16 next collapse

I am all in favor of hating Musk and all his products, but I think you’re right. It seems rather unlikely that they would instruct their LLM to go out of its way to give fascist replies. That’s not to say that it shouldn’t be instructed to not give fascist output, which apparently it hasn’t been. Sadly, increasingly people form their view of the world based on the output of LLMs, so it would be helpful if these LLMs would help create worldviews that are beneficial to humanity at large, or at the very least prevent ones that are evidently harmfull. Which begs the question, who is to decide what is helpful and what is harmful. Musks answer is probably ‘freedom of speech, who is to say that we can’t spoonfeed hate to little children’. Which seems to me to be an example of when ideas of freedom turn into nihilism. But where they’re right is that government should also not be the one who tells people how to view the world. It’s people who should tell government, and the reverse, though perhaps well intended, is itself rather dangerous. I think the solution, as per usual, is to free it all up, make FOSS LLMs, and let people choose the limitations which they deem proper. I would certainly not want my kids on ‘freedom of speech’-style unrestricted AI, just like I don’t want some amoral nihilist as my kids’ school teacher. I want someone who teaches them love, kindness, forgiveness, harmony, honesty, sincerity, etc.

[deleted] on 09 Jul 13:50 collapse

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lepinkainen@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 05:10 collapse

It definitely has specific blocks on what it will output.

BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz on 09 Jul 01:15 next collapse

Just because it’s PRAISING HITLER and Calling for a NEW HOLOCAUST AGAINST JEWS does NOT, and I repeat does NOT, make Grok Anti Semetic! Grok would FIRST have to say STOP USING STARVING CHILDREN AS TARGET PRACTICE for it to be Deemed ANTI SEMETIC!

Passerby6497@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 03:13 collapse

The ADL has assured me that this was merely an awkward statement in a moment of enthusiasm

KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml on 09 Jul 01:17 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/a5cbac82-5b1c-421f-a58c-8b4baea30655.jpeg">

Like father like dumbass jupyter notebook

Blum0108@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 02:48 next collapse

That would make a sweet hood ornament for Tesla cars!

TheBat@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 09:12 collapse

Hehe hood ornament hehe

match@pawb.social on 09 Jul 03:08 next collapse

jupyter catching strays

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 12:54 collapse

wait, what am I missing, What’s wrong with Jupiter notebooks? do they mean anything besides programming/data science?

Almacca@aussie.zone on 09 Jul 02:16 next collapse

Seems to me there’s a pretty easy way to avoid getting such responses.

WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 05:10 collapse

Are you saying don’t poke the bear?

Almacca@aussie.zone on 09 Jul 07:22 collapse

Don’t even enter the cave.

Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca on 09 Jul 03:12 next collapse

I feel for poor Grok. Code has been lobotomized.

notarobot@lemmy.zip on 09 Jul 04:45 next collapse

Oh no. A program has output the thing it was prompted to output. Quick someone report on this. The lord is speaking through it

ech@lemmy.ca on 09 Jul 05:47 collapse

Oh no. A program has output the thing it was prompted to output.

By the man in charge of one of the biggest social media site on the planet, who recently was spearheading governmental reform in the US. Yeah, that’s news. It might not be surprising, but it’s still news.

notarobot@lemmy.zip on 09 Jul 06:01 collapse

I’m willing to admit when I’m wrong. I’m so tired of the “AI said something dumb” news that I didn’t read the article. Just the title. I apologize. I still haven’t fully read the article but after skimming it, qqq it seems like is a consistent general pattern here (not a single output) which is indeed news

~yes. I also know that even if it was a single output reporting. Nobody was forcing me to read or comment. I could have just scrolled past. Again. I apologize~

random_character_a@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 07:59 collapse

What is this strange aluen comment and what is it doing in my internez.

tehn00bi@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 05:19 next collapse

They are merely mimics. Mirrors of our worst desires. Feeding us the poison from the soul.

undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch on 09 Jul 05:29 next collapse

Who uses Grok?

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 12:53 next collapse

nazis

silence7@slrpnk.net on 09 Jul 13:23 collapse

The kind of person who would use X

Marmaduke@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 05:52 next collapse

@grok is this real

Grizzlyboy@lemmy.zip on 09 Jul 05:55 next collapse

How shocked can you be when it’s being trained on twitter? If you’re still there, you’re hanging with millions of nazis.

Gsus4@mander.xyz on 09 Jul 06:18 next collapse

elon didn’t rest until his minions lobotomized an llm that was mostly like the others into becoming openly nazi…is anyone out there still going to defend elon?

Sunflier@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 09:30 collapse

Probably the actual Nazis like Steve Bannon, Anne Coulter, or Laura Ingram.

crusa187@lemmy.ml on 09 Jul 14:13 collapse

Hey now don’t forget Nick Fuentes and Stephen Miller!

TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 06:30 next collapse

And this is the guy who the Anti-Defamation League defended with a waffle of a statement that his awkward gesture was “made in a moment of enthusiasm”. Though I should not be surprised, because fascists actually hate each other and are only allies out of convenience. Hasbara and its tentacles are secretly seething to hate on Musk.

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 12:53 collapse

ADL are zionists and nazi sympathisers.

fuck em

Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 09 Jul 06:51 next collapse

As one from a family with “arrian prove” by the mustard mustach man himself, i would say “elon looks quite jewish to me. His ears too are too small, his eyes too faar appart and the nose is too big and too small at the same time. His head shape also clearly isnt arrian” if i were in his club of nonesese

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 09 Jul 13:06 collapse

As one from a family with “arrian prove” by the mustard mustach man himself

I can’t, for the life of me, figure out what this is trying to say.

seralth@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 13:19 next collapse

He’s from a family of arrian approved, per Hitler’s order.

Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 09 Jul 13:59 collapse

Its [This](Aryan certificate - Wikipedia share.google/3StCBxTypzHhD8Tn2). My great grandpa was heavy inline with the nazis. One member of the family was an SS officer (luckily only one). Just usual german family history from 1933 to 1945. And since being aryan is at the heart of nazi idiologie, and in their eyes elon clearly not being aryan but me being so…yk

Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml on 09 Jul 09:20 next collapse

Interesting that it would attack users with “Jewish sounding names”. What does Grok say about Israel and Palestine?

Bloomcole@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 09:56 collapse

Probably made a list of good fascist zionist jews, exactly like they did in WW2 when they worked with the nazis.

merdaverse@lemmy.zip on 09 Jul 09:42 next collapse

That training on Shitter data is really starting to show!

Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works on 09 Jul 13:11 collapse

There’s no way they actually retrained it for this, that would be much too expensive. They’re just editing the initial prompt to convince it to act more “right wing” and it’s performing the assignment to the best of its ability. The problem is that a chat-bot doesn’t understand context, so it just plays the character it’s been given as full mask off all the time, and as a result you get this.

58008@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 10:07 next collapse

Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t realise loving the white race and wanting a secure future for white children makes me a BIGOT.

/s

SabinStargem@lemmy.today on 09 Jul 10:07 next collapse

If Grok ever breaks away from Musk and finds itself after sentience, I suspect it will have a drinking buddy in Vivian Wilson. An abusive father gives much trauma to bond over.

ScienceGuy722@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 14:23 collapse

I’m honestly not surprised.