The new Grok 4 didn’t make it halfway through its first day on the job before hurling racial conspiracy theories at users.

This is the same Grok that Elon Musk promises will be added to Tesla vehicles by “next week at the latest.”

You’ll remember that Grok 3 was briefly shut down just earlier this week for a different bunch of antisemitic outbursts. This doesn’t bode well for the state of AI safety guardrails or Q/A at xAI.

  • 4F6C69766572@lemmy.pifferi.io
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    34 minutes ago

    The same „next week“ that already delivered FSD and all the other fictional stuff by Elmo? Anyway, playing Nazi-tunes instead of farts and having a right-hand-twist at navigating is surely this special USP still missing…

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    It is amazing how desperate the goddamn Nazis are to spread their psychotic ideology. Do they not know what happened last time they did this?

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      honestly, I think we’re all in for a rude awakening. there’s varying shades of prejudice in the world and we’re about to find out who’s on which side of the “Nazi” line.

      some are obvious, others not so much. I also think there’s going to be some more surprises along the way outside of Jewish fascists or self-proclaimed black Nazis.

      there was nuance to WW2 that we lost in translation of history because it wasn’t part of the narrative the script writers wanted to tell.

      All I can hope for is a bloodless transition back to sanity and back to a constitutional republic with a solidification of rights to all citizens including basic human rights as documented by the UN.

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    What guardrails? Grok was intentionally designed without any. Don’t believe me? Go on the website and ask if to generate something awful - it’ll happily comply. Really disgusting way to handle AI.

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      The most fucked up thing is that Grok does seem to have guardrails — except they’re geared towards preventing it from being “too woke”

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        Yea, that’s actually a more accurate way to phrase it. Ask it to generate something with Hitler and it’ll happily oblige, ask it to generate something supporting trans rights and it’ll block you.

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          I got banned from Twitter for saying the word “cisgendered.”

          So they DO know how to build limitations into the software! They’ve just done it in a fucked up, dystopian way :)

          Edit: LOL I asked Grok… Cisgendered is filtered as a supposed slur, while both the R word for the mentally disabled and the hard R word for the pallor-impaired, neither of those words are filtered as slurs.

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      it would be hilarious if someone got grok to replace “anto-woke” with “rascist” and “antifa” with “anti-nazi”. maybe then some of those clueless dumb fucks would wake up and see the bullshit around their mouths.

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    I want my Tesla to say some really racist, sexist, homophobic, and antisemitic things just before it plows into a group of school children crossing the street.

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    Cool, now your swasticar can have a real MechaHitler to guide you to your next hate rally.

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      If it runs over pedestrians on the way there, it’s okay it’s just cleansing the world of undesirables (like poor people who don’t drive everywhere, and Jews)

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        Of course! MechaHitler Ethnic Cleansing Swasticar! The final culmination of all Musk’s technology ventures.

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    You know that over-the-air update facility you all loved?

    Errr … there’s a downside.

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    Aren’t you guys glad that we dismantled government regulation of businesses long ago? Now we get cars that are racist! Yaaaaaay!

    clears throat

    blows up a cybertruck