Here's your daily reminder that almost everything Musk touches turns
into racist, narrow-minded horseshit.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/16/grok_white_genocide_ai/
On Wednesday, users of the LLM – accessible via X aka Twitter – started noticing that questions to the neural network were being answered, but
with screeds added on about claims of White genocide in South Africa
and references to an apartheid-era song, Kill the Boer. As you can see
below, it didn't take much to trigger the bot.
...
Could it be that Musk had finally had enough of being dissed by his own
AI bot and instructed a staffer to make some changes, which were done
so ham-fistedly that it put the bot on overdrive, overly biasing it?
The totally stable genius behind xAI (which by some bizarre financial
chicanery actually owns X-slash-Twitter now) would surely never
sabotage his own business that way. Rather, the change was more likely
made by a staffer trying to suck up to the boss - or perhaps a rebel
trying to call negative attention to Musk's views.
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