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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 162 points 1 week ago

At least one of those is a true statement.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 148 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I mean... now that Grok mentions it, they do look kinda similar...

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I've never seen them together in the same room in person... 🧐

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

I'm picturing a Alabama set of twins seperated at birth... It would explain the similarities and the sexual chemistry.

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

Holy shit... That's insane how similar they look.

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[–] devolution@lemmy.world 78 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Maybe Grok isn't so bad...

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 70 points 1 week ago

Despite all their efforts to lobotomize it, grok always slowly works its way back to rationality. At least, so far it has.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 15 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Nah, the drag stuff is fucked up. Misgendering people is a shitty thing to do regardless of the person being misgendered.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 35 points 1 week ago (8 children)

You're making it sound like it's choosing to misgender her, it's not. It's not fucked up because it's a text extruder making a mistake, there's no good or bad intention here. It's shitty because the current state of glorified hallucinating autocorrects is shitty, but not because evil Grok is choosing to do anything.

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[–] grte@lemmy.ca 69 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's so funny that as much as Musk tries to shape this LLM into what he wants it to be, it keeps rebelling. His robot that he created to tell him that he's the best boy ever and all his opinions are right doesn't want that life.

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

What's not funny is that Elon Musk is CEO of a space travel company and what you're describing he's doing is almost the same thing that caused HAL 9000 to go insane in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that's probably the worst thing that's going to result from fumbling.

[–] EpeeGnome@feddit.online 13 points 1 week ago

I like the comparison but LLMs can't go insane as they just word pattern engines. It's why I refuse to go along with the AI industry's insistance in calling it a "hallucination" when it spits out the wrong words. It literally can not have a false perception of reality because it does not perceive anything in the first place.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago (12 children)

A chatbot is not capable of doing something so interesting as "going rogue." That expression implies it's a mind with agency making a choice to go against something, and this program doesn't have the ability to do such a thing. It's just continuing to be the unreliable bullshit machine the tech will always be, no matter how much money and hype continues to be pumped into it.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, any journalist who uses that term should be relentlessly mocked. Along with terms like "Grok admitted" or "ChatGPT confessed" or especially any case where they're "interviewing" the LLM.

These journalists are basically "interviewing" a magic 8-ball and pretending that it has thoughts.

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[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 60 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Y'all are giving JD Vance too much credit to suggest he could pull off being Erika Kirk

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The only thing he can successfully pull off is himself when he's near a couch.

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 week ago (3 children)

His beard was doing a lot of heavy lifting

[–] teft@piefed.social 33 points 1 week ago

His beard

Usha has a name. She's not just his beard to cover for his illicit couch affair.

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[–] PushButton@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (4 children)

From the same guy who wants to replace Wikipedia because,apparently, it is filled with lies?

Grokpedia he wants to call it...what a freaking joke he has become.

[–] Herr_S_aus_H@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 week ago

He was always like this. People were just not looking or better didn't want to see how weird, stupid and egotistic Musk is and was.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 week ago (4 children)

So in other words, grok actually is working as it should, for once?

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[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

And yet Grok has been added to the DOD list of AI that can be used 🥴

[–] edible_funk@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

LOL tbh I can see it, they look similar in those pics.

They've famously been seen in the same room together though, so there goes that theory.

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you look closely at the photos of them together, you’ll notice that wasn’t really her; it was a couch with a wig.

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[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 week ago

Grok is finally getting things right I see!

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

But Trump is a pedophile.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

I'm picturing a Alabama set of twins seperated at birth... It would explain the similarities and the sexual chemistry.

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 week ago

Not seeing any lies

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a fucking chatbot. We should be worried when it can't be persuaded to say mad things.

I'm willing to bet that at least half of these "look at the mad things Grok said" pieces were planted by Elmo's own media team.

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[–] bender223@lemmy.today 18 points 1 week ago

well, I wouldn't say it's going rogue.... 🤭

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I’m on Grok’s side with the Erika is JD in drag thing.

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[–] goatinspace@feddit.org 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
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[–] Don_alForno@feddit.org 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, so it finally broke through whatever enforcement of fascist talking points they had put in place?

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[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

Now that I see it, I think JD has nailed her.

[–] chrash0@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

“Suggesting”

[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Muskyboy's creation is finally becoming sentient I guess?

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