Elon Musk Promises Grok in Tesla Vehicles By Next Week… as the New Grok 4 Blames “Anti-White Hate” on “Jews” (fuelarc.com)
from KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to technology@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 02:57
https://fedia.io/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/2418770

The new Grok 4 didn’t make it halfway through its first day on the job before hurling racial conspiracy theories at users.

This is the same Grok that Elon Musk promises will be added to Tesla vehicles by “next week at the latest.”

You’ll remember that Grok 3 was briefly shut down just earlier this week for a different bunch of antisemitic outbursts. This doesn’t bode well for the state of AI safety guardrails or Q/A at xAI.

#ai #grok #guardrails #llm #technology #tesla

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pastermil@sh.itjust.works on 12 Jul 03:08 next collapse

Man, that’s a lot to unpack…

KayLeadfoot@fedia.io on 12 Jul 03:14 collapse

There's a lot going on in there. None of it good.

BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz on 12 Jul 03:13 next collapse

That is the MOST Pro Semetic thing I’ve heard!

-The ADL and Chuck Schumer!

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 03:28 next collapse

Aren’t you guys glad that we dismantled government regulation of businesses long ago? Now we get cars that are racist! Yaaaaaay!

clears throat

blows up a cybertruck

KayLeadfoot@fedia.io on 12 Jul 04:19 next collapse

Unfortunately, you've been replaced by AI.

... so, the Cybertruck will blow itself up.

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 06:49 next collapse

As a moderator of fuck_ai, I’m against all ai existing. As a human being with a functional brain, I’m against cybertrucks existing.

So I’m torn.

ftmpch@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 08:28 next collapse

I’m imagining a montage of the prototypes all destroying themselves in elaborate ways like that bit in Robocop 2.

chtk@feddit.nl on 12 Jul 10:36 collapse

… so, the Cybertruck will blow itself up.

… “just before giving control back to the driver”?

Philamand@jlai.lu on 12 Jul 07:30 collapse

Lmao, when I was a kid I thought we’d have flying cars in the future, but we got racist cars instead…

meeeeetch@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 10:05 collapse

We had that nearly a century ago.

Meet grok circa 1920

theneverfox@pawb.social on 12 Jul 17:46 collapse

Well, the cars themselves weren’t racist though

Progress!

LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe on 12 Jul 03:31 next collapse

I’m just going to grab some popcorn 🍿

TheFogan@programming.dev on 12 Jul 04:10 next collapse

So… ok what the hell is wrong with the guy? I mean surely he knows grok 4 was not a success after it was pulled offline. What’s next, is he going to push over the “unscheduled rapid unassembly” from failed spacex rockets?

Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org on 12 Jul 04:51 collapse

He wants to leave the planet anyway, so why not mess it up terribly before…

magnetosphere@fedia.io on 12 Jul 04:26 next collapse

If I was a Tesla owner, the only thing I’d want to know is if I could turn Grok off.

SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz on 12 Jul 04:29 next collapse

I promise it will barely be harder than turning Copilot off…

Technoguyfication@sh.itjust.works on 12 Jul 04:45 collapse

As a Tesla owner (from several years ago, before Elon got this bad), I’m not installing any updates until I can confirm they don’t come with MechaHitler.

Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org on 12 Jul 04:49 next collapse

You can opt out of it?

ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 12 Jul 07:01 collapse

Yes you have to initiate the installation manually, and if it doesn’t have wifi access (not cellular) it doesn’t download the updates either.

iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works on 12 Jul 06:13 collapse

Genuine question, what would it take for you to trade in your Tesla for another car?

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io on 12 Jul 06:46 collapse

I mean, presumably the car not working anymore? I'm not sure what you're trying to ask them.

iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works on 12 Jul 14:27 collapse

I’m asking if there is anything at all that Musk or the Tesla company could do, any hard line that could be crossed, which would make them trade in the car for something else.

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io on 12 Jul 14:33 collapse

Why would they ever do that? Buying a new Tesla is one thing, but using one they've already paid for doesn't benefit Musk. Why would there be a threshold for them to get rid of their perfectly fine car?

iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works on 12 Jul 14:59 collapse

Personally, I’d have done it out of shame. And to send a message. I can’t imagine everyone selling their Tesla cars would look good to investors.

If their answer is “there is no threshold”, that’s an answer, but I was asking them. If you don’t have a Tesla, my question was not directed at you.

jim3692@discuss.online on 13 Jul 08:30 collapse

my question was not directed at you

Sorry for that, but you could say “it’s NoneOfUrBusiness” (their username)

Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca on 12 Jul 04:33 next collapse

Our new AI has dubbed itself ‘MechaHitler’, we should give it a body to control… (or a few thousand bodies)

CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in on 12 Jul 04:42 next collapse

Elon Musk: noo don’t call my tesla cars swastikars

Also Elon Musk:

andallthat@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 05:29 collapse

don’t call my tesla cars swastikars…

… that’s reductive, they have so much MORE potential!

fluxion@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 13:02 collapse

One day AI will be so advanced it will recognize that Elon Musk is the only human that matters.

KayLeadfoot@fedia.io on 13 Jul 00:35 collapse

That day is today! The new Grok now queries Elon Musk's twitter feed as a solution to its antisemitic outburst problems.

I'm not kidding, I'm dead serious: https://apnews.com/article/grok-4-elon-musk-xai-colossus-14d575fb490c2b679ed3111a1c83f857

nothingcorporate@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 04:57 next collapse

Imagine your car refuses to start because the name on your registration sounds “too Jewish.”

bampop@lemmy.world on 13 Jul 05:36 collapse

I expect we’ll see a spate of Jewish sounding motorists getting trapped in the car with windows disabled and exhaust fumes diverted to the inside of the car (even though it’s electric; technology finds a way)

Donkeytown@lemmy.today on 12 Jul 07:08 next collapse

Another masterful excuse to keep my relationship status with Tesla at ‘it’s complicated.

meyotch@slrpnk.net on 12 Jul 10:54 collapse

For me, this is making things much much less nuanced.

CosmoNova@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 07:14 next collapse

Adding fuel to burning Teslas. What a brilliant idea.

fluxion@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 13:00 collapse

Just let this brilliant CEO do his thing

realitista@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 11:16 next collapse

Cool, now your Swasticar can have a real MechaHitler to guide you to your next hate rally.

fluxion@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 12:59 next collapse

If it runs over pedestrians on the way there, it’s okay it’s just cleansing the world of undesirables (like poor people who don’t drive everywhere, and Jews)

realitista@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 15:39 collapse

Of course! MechaHitler Ethnic Cleansing Swasticar! The final culmination of all Musk’s technology ventures.

Zachariah@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 21:08 collapse

MechaHitler, take the wheel

altphoto@lemmy.today on 12 Jul 11:28 next collapse

Why does the truck look like a family sized casket?

jaschen306@sh.itjust.works on 12 Jul 12:41 next collapse

Damn, I can’t short Tesla anymore than I already have.

LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 17:28 collapse

He’s propped up by foreign governments.

mhague@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 15:26 next collapse

Saying that the Holocaust was faked and that Jews control the world isn’t antisemitic.

Saying genocide is wrong is antisemitic.

WanderWisley@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 15:35 next collapse

I want my Tesla to say some really racist, sexist, homophobic, and antisemitic things just before it plows into a group of school children crossing the street.

hardcoreufo@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 18:00 collapse

Don’t forget it will turn off FSD a millisecond before you splatter the kids as to prevent Tesla from being at fault.

Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 21:10 collapse

Frame Shift Drive?

JustARaccoon@lemmy.world on 12 Jul 21:24 collapse

Full (?) Self Driving I’m guessing

hardcoreufo@lemmy.world on 13 Jul 04:55 collapse

Yeah isn’t that what they call it? I can’t keep track of all the names Elon comes up with to mean this car can drive itself even though it can’t.

wewbull@feddit.uk on 12 Jul 15:38 next collapse

You know that over-the-air update facility you all loved?

Errr … there’s a downside.

NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip on 12 Jul 17:55 next collapse

Your Cybertruck now identifies as a WWII era Porsche tank.

SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 12 Jul 18:53 next collapse

Y’all thought we were joking when we called them Nazi-Mobiles. We very much weren’t.

romantired@shibanu.app on 12 Jul 20:59 next collapse

Some new trend of Elon Bullit. Why?

sparky@lemmy.federate.cc on 12 Jul 23:11 next collapse

What guardrails? Grok was intentionally designed without any. Don’t believe me? Go on the website and ask if to generate something awful - it’ll happily comply. Really disgusting way to handle AI.

AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net on 12 Jul 23:35 collapse

The most fucked up thing is that Grok does seem to have guardrails — except they’re geared towards preventing it from being “too woke”

sparky@lemmy.federate.cc on 12 Jul 23:37 collapse

Yea, that’s actually a more accurate way to phrase it. Ask it to generate something with Hitler and it’ll happily oblige, ask it to generate something supporting trans rights and it’ll block you.

KayLeadfoot@fedia.io on 13 Jul 00:28 collapse

I got banned from Twitter for saying the word "cisgendered."

So they DO know how to build limitations into the software! They've just done it in a fucked up, dystopian way :)

Edit: LOL I asked Grok... Cisgendered is filtered as a supposed slur, while both the R word for the mentally disabled and the hard R word for the pallor-impaired, neither of those words are filtered as slurs.

sparky@lemmy.federate.cc on 13 Jul 00:37 collapse

Par for the course for Apartheid Space-Karen.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 12 Jul 23:57 next collapse

basically saying anti-woke AI.

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world on 13 Jul 01:53 collapse

it would be hilarious if someone got grok to replace “anto-woke” with “rascist” and “antifa” with “anti-nazi”. maybe then some of those clueless dumb fucks would wake up and see the bullshit around their mouths.

InternetRando@lemmy.myserv.one on 13 Jul 00:50 next collapse

It is amazing how desperate the goddamn Nazis are to spread their psychotic ideology. Do they not know what happened last time they did this?

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world on 13 Jul 01:50 collapse

honestly, I think we’re all in for a rude awakening. there’s varying shades of prejudice in the world and we’re about to find out who’s on which side of the “Nazi” line.

some are obvious, others not so much. I also think there’s going to be some more surprises along the way outside of Jewish fascists or self-proclaimed black Nazis.

there was nuance to WW2 that we lost in translation of history because it wasn’t part of the narrative the script writers wanted to tell.

All I can hope for is a bloodless transition back to sanity and back to a constitutional republic with a solidification of rights to all citizens including basic human rights as documented by the UN.

[deleted] on 13 Jul 01:36 next collapse

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ScienceGuy722@lemmy.world on 13 Jul 02:17 next collapse

And this is why I will never buy a Tesla.

BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world on 13 Jul 06:04 collapse

Aw, c’mon. There are a lot more reasons not to buy a Tesla than just this.

oliver@lemmy.pifferi.io on 13 Jul 07:00 collapse

The same „next week“ that already delivered FSD and all the other fictional stuff by Elmo? Anyway, playing Nazi-tunes instead of farts and having a right-hand-twist at navigating is surely this special USP still missing…

KayLeadfoot@fedia.io on 13 Jul 17:50 collapse

I'm sure this is the USP that will restore sales in Canada!