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Elon Musk Promises Grok in Tesla Vehicles By Next Week… as the New Grok 4 Blames “Anti-White Hate” on “Jews” (fuelarc.com)
submitted 1 day ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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 2 points 11 hours ago

Par for the course for Apartheid Space-Karen.