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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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[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 117 points 1 year ago

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 37 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, you've been replaced by AI.

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

[-] chtk@feddit.nl 11 points 1 year ago

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

... "just before giving control back to the driver"?

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Philamand@jlai.lu 22 points 1 year ago

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 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 year ago

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

[-] realitista@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

MechaHitler, take the wheel

[-] nothingcorporate@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in 34 points 1 year ago

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

Also Elon Musk:

[-] andallthat@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

don't call my tesla cars swastikars...

... that's reductive, they have so much MORE potential!

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 28 points 1 year ago

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

-The ADL and Chuck Schumer!

[-] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Adding fuel to burning Teslas. What a brilliant idea.

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Just let this brilliant CEO do his thing

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

Man, that's a lot to unpack..

[-] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

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

[-] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

He's propped up by foreign governments.

[-] NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 year ago

Your Cybertruck now identifies as a WWII era Porsche tank.

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 14 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Technoguyfication@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

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 5 points 1 year ago
[-] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

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 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] SomeoneSomewhere 11 points 1 year ago

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

[-] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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 8 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] InternetRando@lemmy.myserv.one 11 points 1 year ago

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 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 11 points 1 year ago

Why does the truck look like a family sized casket?

[-] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 8 points 1 year ago

I’m just going to grab some popcorn 🍿

[-] ScienceGuy722@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

And this is why I will never buy a Tesla.

[-] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

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

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago

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

Errr .. there's a downside.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

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 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 5 points 1 year ago

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 14 points 1 year ago

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

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