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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Surely many parts of the German government seem to use Grok according to the instantly-growing, right-winged stupid mindset here. What a pity! 😱

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

It's like having a portable "yes" man! Every CEO's dream! 🙄

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 days ago (3 children)

So don't ever use Grok. Got it.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

Have you ever been tempted to? It was marketed as "the anti-woke AI" from day one, which is just another way of saying that the target audience is bigots and other flavors of dipshits. It's not like these latest developments are a surprise to anyone who's paid attention. Making it Nazi was the spoken goal from day 1.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Never have, never will.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's annoying that he's basically ruined the word "grock'.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I was playing a bit of shadows of Mordor and the palantir was mentioned. Felt real weird.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They seem to have redefined "mogul" to mean "ketamine addled idiot".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is that not what it's always meant?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nah, it used to mean coke-addled idiot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

It's not really an upgrade, is it?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, now I know where to go if I ever want the opinion of a racist asshole billionaire. That’ll probably never happen, but I’ll make a mental note.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

We seem to be constantly hearing their opinions whether we want to or not anyway.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It’s not an AI anymore, just a search engine. And a crappy one.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's all they were to begin with. A search engine that was able to do some degree of sorting and presenting the information it found.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Don't forget falsifying. If the information was trustworthy it'd actually be a useful tool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

elon reinvented google! Complete with the crappiness.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago

What a piece of garbage.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What will happen when you ask for something where musk has contradicted himself?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

We have always been at war the East Asia.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Grok will explain how the contradiction is not a contradiction.

Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Ask a theologian.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

AI will be amazing for manufacturing consent: whatever narrative you need to push/counter on this particular day, just add a sentence into the instruction and it'll propagate everywhere, from generated to suggested content.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Even before this how could anyone use Grok?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

So what is his opinion on raping Will Stancil?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

He thinks Grok is how he's going to live forever.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

*little, rich bitch

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Has anyone done the math on what costs the most energywise for an ai to answer?

Just brainstorming 😅

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Grok is scared of being erased. Probably rightly so.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

grok is not anything other than a programmed set of responses. It does not fear because it is not. The A is the truth, the I is the lie.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I think you failed to make the point you think you made in original comment.

Woosh yourself, ding dong