Warren Questions Pentagon Awarding $200 Million Contract to Integrate Elon Musk’s “Grok” Into Military Systems Following the Chatbot’s Antisemitic Posts | U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37252048

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Musk has marketed Grok as an “unfiltered” and “truth-seeking” chatbot that does not subscribe to politically correct standards. Grok has been known to provide inaccurate information when asked about historical events and natural disasters, including wrong names, dates, and details of events. While erroneous responses are a common pitfall of all generative AI, Grok is unique because Musk has called on X users to help train Grok, who then posted conspiracy theories and disinformation. Grok recently “engaged in Holocaust denial and repeatedly brought up false claims of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa.” Grok also does not appear to apply customary safety filters to its responses and “will happily give you advice on how to commit murders and terrorist attacks.”

The lack of safety features has also resulted in Grok creating antisemitic and other offensive content. Days after Musk boasted on social media about significant improvements to the xAI chatbot, “Grok was calling itself ‘MechaHitler’” and recommending a second Holocaust to neo-Nazi accounts.

According to a former Pentagon contracting official, the xAI contract “came out of nowhere,” when other companies had been under consideration for months. Analysts have also indicated that “xAI [did not] have the kind of reputation or track record that typically leads to lucrative government contracts.” During his time as a special government employee, Musk had access to sensitive government contracting, national security, and personnel data.

  • Avicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 hours ago

    lol that will be the least of your worries if you integrate anything Elon makes into my military systems

  • wulrus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    17 hours ago

    Weird. In the 80s, there was this loner in my class who pretended to be a Nazi robot. He walked around and asked everybody in a robotic voice: “Are you an Arian?” … “But your father has black hair. Conclusion: Not an Arian.” etc.

    Nobody got the joke. Must have been like the Comedian in Watchmen: Not a joke after all, just a reflection on the present, or future, in his case.

    Hodor!

  • br0da@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    2 days ago

    Imagine trying to explain this timeline 20 years ago to any sane person. It would sound like some dystopian science fiction conjured up from a fever dream.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    20·
    2 days ago

    I just saw a post where grok was saying that the video of CK bring shot was a meme and that CK was perfectly fine

    I mean of course they should integrate this into every system.in the US army

    I’m looking forward to the Wikipedia article about that army that utterly destroyed itself with sheer stupidity

    • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      The ai industry is trying to create a dependency on itself before the bubble bursts. That’s all this is. Business majors running scams.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    Listen Liz, The Pentagon and hero emblem of democratic free speech, Charlie Kirk, love Mecha Hitler. Why don’t you, commie slut?

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Same country that has many state bans on boycotting Israel. This same country wants the mechahitler from an actual Nazi in charge?

  • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 days ago

    May it all be for naught and America collapses due to its own dysfunction and corruption, the world has suffered the American establishment enough.

    • panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I don’t want America to collapse, I would like for America to drop all these MAGA politicians who are ruining their country.

      Just look at how stupid it was to raid the Hyundai plant. And threatening Canada and Greenland which has put the US at odds with their allies.

      They’d get better trade deals if they didn’t burn literally all goodwill and trust while trying to strong arm the whole world. But now everyone is trying to diversify as much as possible from the US.