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Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts

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Re: Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts

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Isn't this the second time this has happened? Like, happening once is crazy enough but for it to happen twice? There is clearly some tampering happening with people trying to coax it a certain way. I also have to question the people who work at xAI. Are you all on board with Elon's very clear beliefs? Anything for a high enough paycheck?

Re: Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts

#33

Axios made the mistake of linking directly to X instead of archived copies; they've been manually cleaning up some of the worst offenders. Here's some archived examples, the first is the one that first went viral. https://archive.is/fJcSV https://archive.is/I3Rr7 https://archive.is/QLAn0

It's hilarious that we've come full circle back to Facebook's discontinued racist chatbot[0] But I guess Grok being fed with even more twitter content makes it "the new and improved version."

[0] https://mashable.com/article/meta-facebook-ai-chatbot-racism...

Re: Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean like elons general edgelordness makes you think this wasnt intentional, or at least the intentional inclusion of what is likely a 4chan/8chan/similar corpus? What about the salute? The great white replacement theory promotion? Apartheid opinions? Allowing a mass proliferation of white nationalist and literal nazi twitter premium accounts? At some point, it has to click that musk likely shares these opinions.

The fact that X is deleting these posts suggests this was unexpected and undesired behavior. Look, I get it, you hate Musk, and we all have good reasons to do it.. I'm not defending the guy. But X is business and this is bad for business.

The unintentional aspect is the lack of communicating in innuendo and dog whistles. Musk and his team can't keep the AI's mask from slipping off and revealing the underlying rottenness in its ideological bias, but that bias itself is completely intentional.

Re: Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts

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> A website with a bot that calls itself mechahitler and talks nonsense would have been a hilarious hit a couple of decades ago.

Yes. Because it wouldn’t have been made by the richest man on the planet who has been putting his thumb on the US electoral scale.

Context matters.

Re: Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts

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> A website with a bot that calls itself mechahitler and talks nonsense would have been a hilarious hit a couple of decades ago. Yes. Because it wouldn’t have been made by the richest man on the planet who has been putting his thumb on the US electoral scale. Context matters.

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