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Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 week ago by faizalr@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Grok has repeatedly misidentified video of the Bondi Beach shooting and the hero who disarmed a gunman.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 73 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The AI chatbot has repeatedly misidentified 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who heroically disarmed one of the shooters, and claimed the verified video of his deed was something else entirely — including that it was an old viral video of a man climbing a tree.

In the aftermath of the attack, Ahmed has been widely praised for his heroism, but some have tried to dismiss or even deny his actions. Someone even quickly whipped up a fake news site that appears to be AI-generated, with an article naming a fictitious IT professional, Edward Crabtree, as the man who disarmed the attacker. This, of course, got picked up by Grok and regurgitated on X.

But Grok also suggested that images of Ahmed were of an Israeli being held hostage by Hamas. And it claimed that video taken at the scene was actually of Currumbin Beach, Australia, during Cyclone Alfred.

It's hallucinating, but in MAGA 🤣

[–] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's working as intended.

[–] conorab@lemmy.conorab.com 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Surely at some point this would run foul of defamation laws (Australia’s ones can be brutal under the right circumstances). I kinda get wanting to let AIs have a bit of leniency by you then hit the obvious problem of people just hiding behind AIs when they want to make a defamatory claim or just don’t care about being accurate and then blame the AI. Especially with claims like this which if spread, can cause serious reputational harm or even death.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

Not within the USA. I don't know the exact details, but basically all regulation of AI-related stuff is suspended for 10 years or so.
By then they will be the dominating force.
And then they cry about the EU trying to enforce their own laws.