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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

But Trump is a pedophile.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's a fucking chatbot. We should be worried when it can't be persuaded to say mad things.

I'm willing to bet that at least half of these "look at the mad things Grok said" pieces were planted by Elmo's own media team.

[–] ksigley@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Distractions.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 62 points 4 days ago (12 children)

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.works 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.world 7 points 3 days ago

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

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

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.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 163 points 4 days ago

At least one of those is a true statement.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 146 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 54 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I've never seen them together in the same room in person... 🧐

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago

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

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[–] architect@thelemmy.club 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I’m on Grok’s side with the Erika is JD in drag thing.

[–] nightlily@leminal.space 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Joking about how right wing cis women are „actually“ just men in drag, yeah that’ll own the right and not actually just alienate trans people /s

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[–] justaman123@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

It's too bad we have seen them in the same room though. Unless hear me out... Time travel!

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 33 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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

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[–] devolution@lemmy.world 80 points 4 days ago (22 children)
[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 68 points 4 days ago

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

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[–] grte@lemmy.ca 69 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 56 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] EpeeGnome@feddit.online 13 points 4 days ago

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.

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Suggesting?

Implies, intones, propose, advise, hint, intimate, indicate, evoke, convey, evince, express, impart, imply, inform.....

Declare it, Groky.

[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago (3 children)

And yet Grok has been added to the DOD list of AI that can be used 🥴

[–] edible_funk@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 60 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Y'all are giving JD Vance too much credit to suggest he could pull off being Erika Kirk

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you look closely at the photos of them together, you’ll notice that wasn’t really her; it was a couch with a wig.

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[–] PushButton@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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.zip 20 points 4 days ago

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.

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[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

AI ate my face.

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 4 days ago

Grok is finally getting things right I see!

[–] bender223@lemmy.today 18 points 4 days ago

well, I wouldn't say it's going rogue.... 🤭

[–] MrSmith@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Today, on technology news:

RNG generated 666!

Find out other shocking numbers it generated!

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

that's the funny thing about grok, they keep feeding it bullshit to make it lie, but because they don't properly control the data set they feed it, it keeps saying things they don't want it to. It also happens to the AIs people are trying to train to tell the truth, they don't properly control the data set they feed it, so it lies.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 41 points 4 days ago (3 children)

His beard was doing a lot of heavy lifting

[–] teft@piefed.social 33 points 4 days ago

His beard

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

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[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)
[–] Don_alForno@feddit.org 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh, so it finally broke through whatever enforcement of fascist talking points they had put in place?

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[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago

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

[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Damn we really got Grok transvestigating JD Vance/Erika Kirk

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