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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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[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 26 points 2 days ago

The same grok owned by the racist, bigoted Nazi? That grok?

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 73 points 2 days 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 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

MechaHitler

[–] conorab@lemmy.conorab.com 8 points 2 days 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 day 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.

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Grok is spreading misinformation ~~about the Bondi Beach shooting~~

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

And shit stinks. Now here's Tom with the weather

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Grok spreading lies and misinformation? Couldn’t be…

[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

The lying machine lied, color me surprised.

[–] vas@lemmy.ml 45 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Grok this grok that...
I'm sorry, but ***k grok. Stop posting about it.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 78 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You can say “fuck” on the internet.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is that true!?

...

...

^fuck^

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago
[–] butwhyishischinabook@piefed.social 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Not in ml you can't lol. Bootlicking is hard work.

[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

False slander (ironic considering what we’re discussing).

Only slurs are auto removed including a very common one against women pertaining as well to female dogs. You can say fuck, shit, asshole, etc.

Well, slurs and literally anything critical of Leninism. But you're correct, I was being hyperbolic. It's the only instance I can think of with extensive censorship but it's not applied to all swear words.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] echolalia@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's also untrue.

Watch: Fuck

[–] falseWhite@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] prex@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"Communism is so hot that it makes me want to fuck communism"
Sorry, I'm being a smartarse.

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Are you saying it in ml if you're posting on a different instance? Can the ml mods block this comment, or ban you from a community on an instance they don't moderate?

I'm not sure were the other person is coming from, I've seen a lot of "fuck" and "BLYAT" on ml.

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

***k

Hey, how do you know my password?

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

groak is your password too?

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago

Who freakin' cares? I still get my news from various human sources. Is there anyone out there screaming "Grok! Save us!".

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 8 points 2 days ago

Chill bro grok was just trolling..

[–] ThisGuyThat@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I would not mind more sites feeding bad data to LLM's.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

i.e. to render it useless?

[–] falseWhite@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago