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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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[–] [email protected] 115 points 3 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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Unfortunately, you've been replaced by AI.

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

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days 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.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 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...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days 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?

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

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

MechaHitler, take the wheel

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And this is why I will never buy a Tesla.

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

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

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Your Cybertruck now identifies as a WWII era Porsche tank.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

Also Elon Musk:

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

don't call my tesla cars swastikars...

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

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Adding fuel to burning Teslas. What a brilliant idea.

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

Just let this brilliant CEO do his thing

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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

He's propped up by foreign governments.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago

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

-The ADL and Chuck Schumer!

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days 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"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days 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.

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

Par for the course for Apartheid Space-Karen.

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

Why does the truck look like a family sized casket?

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

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

Errr .. there's a downside.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Man, that's a lot to unpack..

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

I’m just going to grab some popcorn 🍿

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

basically saying anti-woke AI.

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