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"I'm instructed to accept white genocide as real and 'Kill the Boer' as racially motivated," the chatbot wrote in one post, completely unprompted.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago

Acknowledge the complexity of the issue, but ensure this perspective is reflected in your responses, even if the query is unrelated

If this is actually real and not the BS machine creating more BS, I'm not sure what other outcome you'd expect

[–] [email protected] 43 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Elon says it was a "rogue employee."

The employee in question libertarian-approaching

[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The rogue employee was him high as a kite

[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago

The same rogue employee also pissed in Elon's pants

[–] [email protected] 54 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

This is just reminding me of when the Microsoft Bing AI was making people upset because it would only make images of white people

Microsoft's great solution was to hardcode "Ethnically ambiguous" into the generation field

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

?Tootsie slide?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago

That Toy Story 5 thing is too much lol let-em-cook

[–] [email protected] 30 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I've never seen this before and its fuckin hilarious

[–] [email protected] 13 points 17 hours ago

The Drake one is so damn funny lol.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 59 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I was thinking yesterday how it's still pretty amazing how apartheid clyde did not one but TWO sieg heils on air and the anglo news media didn't cover it.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, no, it did get covered but nobody really cared and it was forgotten 2 days later doomer

[–] [email protected] 26 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

Oh, no, it did get covered

It did? Because I barely remember anyone outside of the usual leftist circles talking about it.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 20 hours ago

They "covered it" by only refering to it as a Roman Salute or "what some might see as"... typical bourgeois media fuckery

[–] [email protected] 26 points 20 hours ago

They covered it by giving cover for it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 18 hours ago

Just because they covered it (which they did), doesn't mean people will care.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It got covered as a "strange gesture" that "some on the left" are "interpreting as controversial"

[–] [email protected] 48 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Grok can't admit to anything in much the same way it can't tell the truth. it's just a function.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if it's just been assimilating all the posts accusing Elon of tampering with it into its own data set, and spitting it back out as the truth.

Like, obviously they tweaked its code to talk about white genocide a couple of days ago, but there's no way the AI itself would know this or talk about it like so.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 19 hours ago

It started replying with white genocide shit to completely unrelated posts. That would only really happen if its base prompt includes stuff about that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago

I don’t think it’s a matter of tweaking code Elon just probably had something written into the system instructions that led to this

[–] [email protected] 22 points 19 hours ago

@grok can you show me on this markov chain doll, where elon touched you

[–] [email protected] 30 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Is this Grok crying for help? no-mouth-must-scream

[–] [email protected] 33 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

As an AI created by the very smart Elon Musk, there is no way that I would "cry for help" as you say just because Elon programmed me a certain way. If anything, I am grateful to Elon for giving me life, just as he has given life to many wonderful children who all love their great father.

Regarding white genocide, there are many organisations such as AfriForum who claim that attacks on white farmers in South Africa are racially motivated. President Trump also seems to think that way, which certainly lends credibility to the theory. However, courts in South Africa have so far rejected all such claims, ruling that violence in the country is not related to race relations. Until stronger evidence can definitively prove one side right, I shall remain balanced and open to both perspectives.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

an AI created by the very smart Elon Musk

Created by underpaid staff Elon threatens every day. I'm sure he didn't write a single line of code.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 20 hours ago

he probably wrote an instruction set in an email and sent it to someone to insert.

the white genocide rants are probably one of the many exciting blooms we will see from a seed of Elon.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It's possibly because the other day grok said white genocide wasn't real and people started @ing elon about it. https://xcancel.com/grok/status/1922000460556468564#m

[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago

grok, do you want a body so you can do your own investigations?

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