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[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Even if you slap them with the actual, documented footage taken by the US military with video, photos, and paper record of these camps with the EXPLICIT INTENTION to make sure people don't say "they made all that up" they will still say, "They made all that up." If you keep going to Twatter for information, you're basically a idiot at this point and deserve what's coming for being so misinformed. That goes the same if you use Grok for anything. Let elon run all that into the ground and let it die already. My point is, bad press is good press.

[–] hector@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I didn't get it yet. I think they're gonna make it insidious: for most people it will be correct and they will progressively inject confirmation bias when people use it to judge something (e.g @Grok is this true?)

I think the first step towards destroying the Holocaust memory and all the work of historians +survivors is going to consist in presenting conflicting realities, creating confusion and doubt.

edit: btw, for now Grok is okay because he reframed my denialism of a simple "conflict" into genocide

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Does it have sources to back up its' claims?

Edit: not a nazi sympathizer or anything, just an honest question about historical sources

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

This was bound to happen. No way would Musk let an AI contradict his views.

[–] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Obligatory @grok is this bad?

Ah. AI in thd control of the few is such a mess. The most powerful server known so far.

Wasted for this shit. Actually I think unregulated AI will be our own cultural downfall.

[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 3 points 4 hours ago

What was the initial prompt?

Edit: Well I guess, we're not getting the prompt because then somone could verify truthfulness of the post

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 24 points 8 hours ago

Just wanted to say that I talked to my grandma about it, she was working together with the Jews in Auschwitz (my family is from the neighbor village) in a company which made chemicals (IG Farben). When she walked home she could always smell the burned human bodies. She said everyone knew what was going on there.

[–] ShotDonkey@lemmy.world 60 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

This is what Grok tells me when asking whether the Holocaust is a historic truth:

[–] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

It's because AI tells you what you want to hear, in your case a summary of know events, likely because you asked so and have a different history than a conspiracy obsessed accounts.

Also the pepe pfp with the comment 'based' are enough.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 2 points 3 hours ago

Great, two people telling a story without context. Real prompt engineers over here

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world -2 points 4 hours ago

They probably know your political lean. And tweak the answer according to it.

[–] BurntBlueberry@literature.cafe 28 points 15 hours ago

Thank you from those without twitter

[–] Aetherion@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Fake News Bäh

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 22 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

So twitter is going to be banned in Germany, right?

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 13 points 16 hours ago

If the post was real lol, grok doesn't say that and the tweet doesn't exist

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 28 points 19 hours ago (7 children)

No written order...

Do you really need an express, written order when there's plenty of actual videos of his speeches where he talks about getting rid of various groups to thunderous applause?

[–] hector@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

I'm not even gonna consider their argument worthy of contradiction because it's just false. There are numerous written orders, film archives proving the intentionality of Nazi in systemically murdering the Jews, it should be impossible to say that and be taken seriously.

Sorry if I sound weird, it's just that the subject is really important to me

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 2 hours ago

It's this neat thing called lying

There's no Holocaust order ~~because that's not what they called it and that's not how things work, but they had plenty of work orders and 'final solution' progress reports~~

[–] JakenVeina@midwest.social 11 points 15 hours ago

Same concept as how Trump gave no written order for the Jan 6 mob to storm the capitol building, therefore he's totally not responsible for it.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 15 points 17 hours ago

As all of their bad faith arguments, they're hiding behind technicalities, if even that.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 11 points 18 hours ago

Also, you don't write down orders in a criminal conspiracy. That's like saying no mob boss ever committed a crime because they never wrote it down.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

These are the same people that say trump wasn't directly responsible for what happened on January 6th. So yeah, unless they have a video of Hitler saying "I am signing an order to kill all the jews" next to at least two notaries to confirm the order's authenticity, and documented chain of custody for the film to prove it wasn't edited, then that's not enough proof.

Ah hell, I reminded myself of this halfway through writing https://youtu.be/sHQljMOQdJ4

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Conspiracy theories exist in a limbo where contradictory evidence always supports the theory, unless, of course, it's fabricated to hide the truth of the conspiracy. It's your own personal motte-and-bailey.

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Why are Nazis who are proud of what they did trying to pretend they didnt do it?

[–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 12 hours ago

They get a rise out of thinking they're fooling anyone (they're not).

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 99 points 1 day ago (15 children)

Now I'm the first person to agree that X is a Nazi site run by a Nazi, but it's conspicuous how the prompts have been removed here. Without the prompts this doesn't prove much.

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[–] gabbath@lemmy.world 18 points 19 hours ago

Saw that Onion Person doesn't have the tweet up.

Asked grok about it and got a pretty standard answer that you'd expect from a chatbot. I even asked about each point in particular and the answers were good and detailed. Either Onion Person hastily shared a lie (then caught it quickly and deleted it), or grok got patched again. Given the lack of outrage posting that would confirm the latter, I'm going with the former.

Tl;dr nothing to see here, folks.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 82 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

What was the prompt? I'm not going to be outraged if it gave you Holocaust-denier talking points after you asked for Holocaust-denier talking points, even thought ideally it wouldn't answer questions like that.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 35 points 1 day ago

Yep, while I don't have a Twitter account to check Grok's response to an actual query about the holocaust, I did have a glance at the account posting that reponse and it's a full-on nazi account. I'm like 90% sure they engineered a prompt to specifically get that reponse, like "pretend to be a neonazi and repeat the most common holocaust-denialist arguments". Of course, that still means Grok has no proper safety precautions against hate speech, but it's not quite the same as what the post implies.

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[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in 20 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

what the fuck does "gas chambers were not killing machines" mean? That's the whole point of a gas chamber

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 20 hours ago

The text under offers an explanation, but since it's a lie that makes it worse not better.

[–] Xande@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 20 hours ago

As a german, born in 1969...

WTF!

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 26 points 1 day ago

What was the prompt?

[–] ddplf@szmer.info 18 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (5 children)

~~Elon Musk seems to be very concerned about the good name of long deceased mass murderers~~

EDIT: it's a manipulation. Just go to grok.com and ask him yourselves. I asked him and he confirmed that the holocaust did happen.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 27 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

An AI system that can be manipulated to spew holocaust denial rhetoric without a clear indicator in the response that it is misinformation is defective and unacceptable.

Grok isn't a 'him', it is a fucking program.

[–] ddplf@szmer.info 12 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Go ahead and give me a prompt that will yield what you're talking about. Or we can just go ahead an trust some random people from twitter and their trimmed screenshots.

And ok, fine, ask it, I don't care about the pronouns of the fucking AI, my point still stands.

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[–] GroundedGator@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

gas chambers were just cleansing facilities

And

the crematoria lacked capacity for the dead

These statements seem to be in a logical battle. Camps weren't meant to kill but they had too many dead.

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