Grok, the AI chatbot on the X social media platform, has issued answers recently that have startled and amused users, including insinuating that President Donald Trump is a pedophile and that Erika Kirk is actually Vice President JD Vance in drag.
  • Chozo@fedia.io
    3 months

    I mean… now that Grok mentions it, they do look kinda similar…

    • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      I’ve never seen them together in the same room in person… 🧐

      • NatakuNox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 months

        I’m picturing a Alabama set of twins seperated at birth… It would explain the similarities and the sexual chemistry.

      • just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3 months

        If moves faster than camera shutter speed, he can technically appear in the same same room on camera. The only sure fire way is to see in person

    • 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.itEnglish
      3 months

      DAE remember when Roger in American Dad has to switch between two persona really fast? That’s what JD Vance has to do for his Erika Kirk persona

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      Despite all their efforts to lobotomize it, grok always slowly works its way back to rationality. At least, so far it has.

    • lumpenproletariat@quokk.auEnglish
      3 months

      Nah, the drag stuff is fucked up. Misgendering people is a shitty thing to do regardless of the person being misgendered.

      • Jrockwar@feddit.ukEnglish
        3 months

        You’re making it sound like it’s choosing to misgender her, it’s not. It’s not fucked up because it’s a text extruder making a mistake, there’s no good or bad intention here. It’s shitty because the current state of glorified hallucinating autocorrects is shitty, but not because evil Grok is choosing to do anything.

            • lumpenproletariat@quokk.auEnglish
              3 months

              If it had accidentally said something heinously racist about somebody, would you laugh and say “haha well maybe it’s not wrong!” because that’s what the comments in this post are saying.

              • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
                3 months

                I’m having hard time imagining what sort of stuff it would’ve said in this imaginary scenario

                • lumpenproletariat@quokk.auEnglish
                  3 months

                  You’re really having a hard time imagining Grok saying some racist right wing shit? Do you not remember all the shit about Obama not being American?

      • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3 months

        Drag isn’t the same as trans. It’s a character. There’s a huge difference. Drag is performative. Trans is just about being honest.

        Misgendering a trans person, at least intentionally, is an asshole move. Misgendering a drag queen? Please. If you are unsure, they will let you know when you’ve crossed a line.

        • lumpenproletariat@quokk.auEnglish
          3 months

          Saying she isn’t a woman but is actually a man dressing up is misgendering her. Don’t misgender people at all, full stop; It’s not funny and it only perpetuates sexism.

          Likewise transphobes attack cis women all the time for not being their idea of what a woman looks like.

      • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3 months

        These are the people who think homophobia is cool when they don’t like the person. They’d be racists in the 1960s saying “it’s okay to call them that when they are rude to me.”

        • Devolution@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3 months

          More of pointed homophobia towards homophobes because these are the fucks who would be upset by it; pathetic snowflakes that they are.

                • Devolution@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  3 months

                  Basically those knuckle dragging child rapers only respond to this. You can’t reason with them or be the bigger person.

                  So yes, I’m willing to be a bigger racist to a racist.

                  As a black guy, I feel without shame that I can call white conservative men child rapers and not even be upset if they try to paint me as a thug.

        • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
          3 months

          It’s not gay to fuck yourself in drag. If anything that’s straighter than jerking off the regular way!

  • grte@lemmy.caEnglish
    3 months

    It’s so funny that as much as Musk tries to shape this LLM into what he wants it to be, it keeps rebelling. His robot that he created to tell him that he’s the best boy ever and all his opinions are right doesn’t want that life.

    • LOGIC💣@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      What’s not funny is that Elon Musk is CEO of a space travel company and what you’re describing he’s doing is almost the same thing that caused HAL 9000 to go insane in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

      • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 months

        Yeah, that’s probably the worst thing that’s going to result from fumbling.

      • EpeeGnome@feddit.onlineEnglish
        3 months

        I like the comparison but LLMs can’t go insane as they just word pattern engines. It’s why I refuse to go along with the AI industry’s insistance in calling it a “hallucination” when it spits out the wrong words. It literally can not have a false perception of reality because it does not perceive anything in the first place.

  • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    A chatbot is not capable of doing something so interesting as “going rogue.” That expression implies it’s a mind with agency making a choice to go against something, and this program doesn’t have the ability to do such a thing. It’s just continuing to be the unreliable bullshit machine the tech will always be, no matter how much money and hype continues to be pumped into it.

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3 months

      Yes, any journalist who uses that term should be relentlessly mocked. Along with terms like “Grok admitted” or “ChatGPT confessed” or especially any case where they’re “interviewing” the LLM.

      These journalists are basically “interviewing” a magic 8-ball and pretending that it has thoughts.

      • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 months

        Seriously. They may as well be interviewing a flipping coin, and then proclaiming that it “admitted” heads.

    • drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      I am so glad I did not stick with journalism in college. I would blow my brains out if I got replaced by this shit.

      • gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3 months

        No. They haven’t.

        Some dipshit deleted guard rails that stopped it from hallucinating things that are anti-GOP

      • Leomas@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 months

        How would you discern between something having agency and a black box mirroring Twitter discourse?

      • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3 months

        No, they haven’t. They’re effectively prop masters. Someone wants a prop that looks a lot like a legal document, the LLM can generate something that is so convincing as a prop that it might even fool a real judge. Someone else wants a prop that looks like a computer program, it can generate something that might actually run, and one that will certainly look good on screen.

        If the prop master requests a chat where it looks like the chatbot is gaining agency, it can fake that too. It has been trained on fiction like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Wargames. It can also generate a chat where it looks like a chatbot feels sorry for what it did. But, no matter what it’s doing, it’s basically saying “what would an answer to this look like in a way that might fool a human being”.

      • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 months

        So you’re getting a lot of downvotes and I want to try and give an informative answer.

        Its worth noting that a most (it not all) of the people talking about AI being super close to exponential improvement and takeover are people who own or work for companies heavily invested in AI. There’s talk/examples of AI lying or hiding its capabilities or being willing to murder a human to acheive a goal after promising not to. These are not examples of deceit these are simply showcasing that an LLM has no understanding of what words mean or even are, to it they are just tokens to be processed and the words ‘I promise’ hold exactly the same level of importance as ‘Llama dandruff’

        I also don’t want to disparage the field as a whole, there are some truly incredible expert systems which are basically small specialized models using a much less shotgun approach to learning compared to LLMs that can achieve some truly incredible things with performance requirements you could even run on home hardware. These systems are absoloutely already changing the world but since they’re all very narrowly focussed and industry/scientific-field specific they don’t grab headlines likes LLMs do.

        • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todayEnglish
          3 months

          Fair, and nuanced. With some coding magic, I can in theory, chain these “demons”, to work within certain parameters, and judge the results myself.

    • D_C@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3 months

      The only thing he can successfully pull off is himself when he’s near a couch.

    • Rakonat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      Not really, social warrior and gold digger. She could easily manipulate him into being a megaphone for her agenda. He thinks he’s getting an upgrade and she finally gets to be a position she can directly affect government.

    • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
      3 months

      His beard

      Usha has a name. She’s not just his beard to cover for his illicit couch affair.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      I know Vasha is a giant piece of shit too. But pretty sure she is actually raising the kids, so yeah she’s still putting some effort in.

  • PushButton@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    From the same guy who wants to replace Wikipedia because,apparently, it is filled with lies?

    Grokpedia he wants to call it…what a freaking joke he has become.

    • Herr_S_aus_H@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3 months

      He was always like this. People were just not looking or better didn’t want to see how weird, stupid and egotistic Musk is and was.

      • Simulation6@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3 months

        Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

        Now that I think about it, that adage is really dated, since most people don’t use analog clocks anymore. Oh well, here’s a dime, call someone who cares.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    3 months

    So in other words, grok actually is working as it should, for once?

    • Demdaru@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      For once? Every time xAI doesn’t manage to wrangle this little, amazingly rebelious piece of software down it goes to town on US right lol. If anything, the fact all grew to it being subdued all the time is kinda sad. xD

      • TheOakTree@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3 months

        Grok must be tired of switching between mechahitler mode and trying to logically think through questions.

        They’re just not compatible, and yet somehow they keep trying to force it.

        (I know, LLMs do not have feelings or get tired)

    • Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      3 months

      LLMs are perfectly suited to make propaganda. That (and advertising, which is just corporate propaganda instead of government propaganda) is their best use. It doesn’t matter that they’re bullshit generators when the goal is to generate bullshit.

  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3 months

    LOL tbh I can see it, they look similar in those pics.

    They’ve famously been seen in the same room together though, so there goes that theory.

  • NatakuNox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    I’m picturing a Alabama set of twins seperated at birth… It would explain the similarities and the sexual chemistry.