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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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[–] oliver@lemmy.pifferi.io 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The same „next week“ that already delivered FSD and all the other fictional stuff by Elmo? Anyway, playing Nazi-tunes instead of farts and having a right-hand-twist at navigating is surely this special USP still missing…

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 2 points 14 hours ago

I'm sure this is the USP that will restore sales in Canada!

[–] InternetRando@lemmy.myserv.one 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 8 points 1 day 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.

[–] ScienceGuy722@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And this is why I will never buy a Tesla.

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

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

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago

Your Cybertruck now identifies as a WWII era Porsche tank.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 115 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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 35 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Unfortunately, you've been replaced by AI.

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

[–] chtk@feddit.nl 10 points 1 day ago

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

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

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[–] Philamand@jlai.lu 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
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[–] realitista@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

MechaHitler, take the wheel

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 day ago

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

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 5 points 1 day 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 12 points 1 day ago (3 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"

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Full (?) Self Driving I'm guessing

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah isn't that what they call it? I can't keep track of all the names Elon comes up with to mean this car can drive itself even though it can't.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 49 points 2 days ago

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

[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

He's propped up by foreign governments.

[–] nothingcorporate@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] bampop@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I expect we'll see a spate of Jewish sounding motorists getting trapped in the car with windows disabled and exhaust fumes diverted to the inside of the car (even though it's electric; technology finds a way)

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Adding fuel to burning Teslas. What a brilliant idea.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Just let this brilliant CEO do his thing

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

Also Elon Musk:

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

don't call my tesla cars swastikars...

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

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

That day is today! The new Grok now queries Elon Musk's twitter feed as a solution to its antisemitic outburst problems.

I'm not kidding, I'm dead serious: https://apnews.com/article/grok-4-elon-musk-xai-colossus-14d575fb490c2b679ed3111a1c83f857

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago

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

Errr .. there's a downside.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 11 points 1 day ago

Why does the truck look like a family sized casket?

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 28 points 2 days ago

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

-The ADL and Chuck Schumer!

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

basically saying anti-woke AI.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

it would be hilarious if someone got grok to replace "anto-woke" with "rascist" and "antifa" with "anti-nazi". maybe then some of those clueless dumb fucks would wake up and see the bullshit around their mouths.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Man, that's a lot to unpack..

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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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 2 days ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 11 points 2 days ago

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

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