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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

#93

Good thing is the Tesla propaganda machine is currently pushing for a merge of xAI / Tesla and integration of Grok into Teslas.

For real? I can't tell anymore.

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-vehicles-grok-voice-assistan...

> Musk didn’t disclose exactly when Tesla’s vehicles would get the Grok voice assistant, simply saying that the feature was “coming soon.”

> “Grok in Teslas is coming soon,” Musk said. “So you will just be able to talk to your Tesla and ask for anything.”

> As Musk pointed out in his gaming broadcast, the system is expected to let drivers talk directly to their vehicle, to which Grok will respond and make the necessary changes as a built-in voice assistant. Currently, however, Grok 3 and its voice mode are only available to those with a Premium Plus account on X, running $40 a month.

> xAI officially launched a standalone Grok app for Apple devices in January, following suit for Androids just weeks later in February. Voice functionality with Grok in Tesla vehicles has also been teased in a few under-the-radar updates from the company since last year.

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/new-tesla-software-build-...

> The 2025.20 software update also provides new information about the Grok integration as a personal assistant in Tesla EVs. According to Green (@greentheonly), who looked into Tesla code, Grok's launch is imminent. The update includes icons and backend code for Grok's "language tutor personalities." So far, 13 new personalities are offered, from Argumentative to Romantic and Sexy, besides Unhinged, which is Grok's default.

> However, there's bad news about Grok, as Green learned it will only be available on vehicles powered by an AMD Ryzen MCU. This means Intel-based vehicles, many produced until 2022, are excluded. There's no information about when Grok will be available as an assistant in Tesla EVs, but hopefully, it will happen soon.

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

#96

If you work for one of his companies, please find work elsewhere.

The engineers who worked on the Death Star probably thought they were pushing engineering ahead and that it was “cool epic tech”.

Never forget that so called normal people are the ones who support some of the worst people, whether fiction or reality.

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

#97

Flagged because, apparently, a $50b+ AI company (incidentally headed by someone YC enthusiastically invited to their AI Startup School) tinkering with one of the biggest and most prominent LLMs to blurt out full-on Nazi rhetoric is unworthy of discussion. Somehow, this is both an evil and deeply unserious industry.

Maybe we should've made CS majors read a book or 2 after all. Maybe that wouldn't have helped, perhaps all it takes is $200k/year for people to stop caring about anything outside their immediate best interest.

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

#99
post #78

Musk was earlier saying Grok's sources had been too lefty leading it to say right wingers were more violent than left wingers and he'd fix it. Looks like maybe he overshot?

Musk boasting about how he "fixed" Grok only to have it immediately go full Nazi is so on the nose that had it been fiction people would be calling it bad writing.

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

#100

Can't believe they flagged this. Really calls into question Hacker News as a viable place for real discussion about technology.

Lots of YC folks loooooooove Elon and would follow him to any end because he is a Champion of Capital.
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