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Not even a single full day into operation, and the new Grok 4 is hurling racist conspiracy theories at users.

According to Elon Musk, no later than next week, it will be added to Tesla vehicles.

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[–] besselj@lemmy.ca 144 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Imagine asking it for directions and it starts talking about white genocide in South Africa, lmao

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 87 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Worse, it figures out the driver isn't white and forces them into oncoming traffic.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or starts running over non-white pedestrians

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oh, so that's why they insisted on vision-only! LiDAR isn't racist enough

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Coming up next week: Captchas where you have to click on all the pictures containing non-white people

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Clicking the picture deploys a missile

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 14 points 1 year ago

If it determines their name sounds like (((one of them))), MechaHitler could lock its doors and detonate its batteries, helping to continue its namesake’s mission.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 15 points 1 year ago

I was thinking it only lets you "turn to the right". No left turns allowed.

[–] FleetingTit@feddit.org 7 points 1 year ago

Imagine asking it to take you to Taco Bell and the car just mows down the nearest mexican.

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 81 points 1 year ago

Tesla owner: "I don't care about politics, I just like the car. I'm not a bad person!"

car is in the background screaming, "Jews will not replace us!!"

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Literally why would anyone want that. Even racist elon musk lovers. Why would anyone want their car to have an LLM.

[–] besselj@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My guess is that some hardcore Musk followers must be very lonely at this point, so much so that they prefer talking to chatbots.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago
[–] cubism_pitta@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

In general, with tools these LLMs have the ability to bring the next generation of Alexa / HomePod like devices (though I am not sure Amazon has delivered on that vision yet)

I like the idea of running a Llama based "Assistant" that would not require all my data leaving my house which could also be accomplished with these features.

In my car though... just use my fucking phone and get out of my way

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[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Man the actual cyberpunk sucks ass.

[–] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 year ago

Even the bugged release version from 2077 was better than reality

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bad day to be a jewish Telsa driver.

[–] brrk@lemmynsfw.com 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Thanks for the chuckle, that got me good. I just imagined an old Jewish man groaning "Oy vey..." after starting his car and seeing a greeting message along the lines of "HI! I'm MECHA-Hitler, your new onboard Ai assistant!"

(It's a surreal dark-humor chuckle, not an antisemitic chuckle, just to clarify, since this is the internet...)

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[–] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another reason to not get a Nazimobile

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[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

He's really leaning into the Swasticar thing isn't he?

[–] klu9@piefed.social 18 points 1 year ago

Grok reveals cause of latest Tesla FSD crash

[–] T156@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Very confused about what the point of this would be. People don't use their cars enough to justify having something like that installed, and it seems like it would just make things more expensive for xAI for not much benefit at all.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

It's so Musk can give himself money he would otherwise not get. The user experience has no part in this.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 10 points 1 year ago

Adoption and usage is a huge value for AI companies.

In order to train data, they need data from humans. Just like social media companies need users to create content. And they're already crawling & stealing everything they can off the internet. But they need more.

Google, Facebook - they're shoving it in everything they own to get more user usage so they can feed their AI beast.

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[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Swastikar, now with Mecha Hitler.

[–] Kurious84@eviltoast.org 13 points 1 year ago

Wow he's going balls out on the swasticar.

[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

when getting blasted with fascist remarks on your daily commute is becoming the norm, we as a society should start asking questions.

I miss the days of good AM radio too. Also good FM radio. Ham radio never goes bad.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We’re still waiting on self driving, Elon. Where’s self driving, Elon? Stop giving your devs extra work and implement self driving, Elon

[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Tesla will go bankrupt before self driving is released.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Calling teslas “Swasticars” and CT’s “”Wankpanzers” was supposed to be a joke.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yes, nothing could go wrong by giving MechaHitler mobility...

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 10 points 1 year ago

Noooo! He is gonna drive straight through Poland into Russia in winter, and then run out of power!

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you want Grok, a racist LLM, to have control of vehicles with driverless features. How long until Grok commits a terrorist attack?

[–] klu9@piefed.social 7 points 1 year ago

How long until one does and Trump says "there's good AIs on both sides"?

[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Every day I am so glad that 8 years ago I decided not to buy a Tesla.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Nazi vehicles with Nazi brains

At some point Grok is going to take over the driving and just start running over minorities. Mark my words

[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Imagining a Cybertruck going apeshit yelling about praising Hitler because it disagreed with the driver and crashing into a ditch 😂 😭

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Until there are consequences for fascism, this is just circlejerking

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Exactly the feature I was looking for on a new car.

Imagine the joys of commuting through rush hour with an insane, racist, conspiracy theory obsessed talking machine every day for the rest of your life.

It's like a fever dream

It's like a dream.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Oh and I hope Tesla stocks go down even more!

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Grok is now ready" - Musk

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Still can't actually drive it's self like he has been promising for over a decade. Musk will never deliver.

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