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.

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[–] 113 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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

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  • [–] [S] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Unfortunately, you've been replaced by AI.

    ... so, the Cybertruck will blow itself up.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Lmao, when I was a kid I thought we'd have flying cars in the future, but we got racist cars instead...

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago

    Our new AI has dubbed itself 'MechaHitler', we should give it a body to control... (or a few thousand bodies)

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Imagine your car refuses to start because the name on your registration sounds "too Jewish."

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    I expect we'll see a spate of Jewish sounding motorists getting trapped in the car with windows disabled and exhaust fumes diverted to the inside of the car (even though it's electric; technology finds a way)

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Adding fuel to burning Teslas. What a brilliant idea.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Elon Musk: noo don't call my tesla cars swastikars

    Also Elon Musk:

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    don't call my tesla cars swastikars...

    ... that's reductive, they have so much MORE potential!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    One day AI will be so advanced it will recognize that Elon Musk is the only human that matters.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Man, that's a lot to unpack..

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Damn, I can't short Tesla anymore than I already have.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago*

    Y'all thought we were joking when we called them Nazi-Mobiles. We very much weren't.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Your Cybertruck now identifies as a WWII era Porsche tank.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    If I was a Tesla owner, the only thing I’d want to know is if I could turn Grok off.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    As a Tesla owner (from several years ago, before Elon got this bad), I’m not installing any updates until I can confirm they don’t come with MechaHitler.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Genuine question, what would it take for you to trade in your Tesla for another car?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I mean, presumably the car not working anymore? I'm not sure what you're trying to ask them.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm asking if there is anything at all that Musk or the Tesla company could do, any hard line that could be crossed, which would make them trade in the car for something else.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Why would they ever do that? Buying a new Tesla is one thing, but using one they've already paid for doesn't benefit Musk. Why would there be a threshold for them to get rid of their perfectly fine car?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Personally, I'd have done it out of shame. And to send a message. I can't imagine everyone selling their Tesla cars would look good to investors.

    If their answer is "there is no threshold", that's an answer, but I was asking them. If you don't have a Tesla, my question was not directed at you.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Don't forget it will turn off FSD a millisecond before you splatter the kids as to prevent Tesla from being at fault.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Why does the truck look like a family sized casket?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    That is the MOST Pro Semetic thing I've heard!

    -The ADL and Chuck Schumer!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    And this is why I will never buy a Tesla.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

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

    Errr .. there's a downside.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    So... ok what the hell is wrong with the guy? I mean surely he knows grok 4 was not a success after it was pulled offline. What's next, is he going to push over the "unscheduled rapid unassembly" from failed spacex rockets?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I’m just going to grab some popcorn 🍿

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    basically saying anti-woke AI.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago

    Saying that the Holocaust was faked and that Jews control the world isn't antisemitic.

    Saying genocide is wrong is antisemitic.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Some new trend of Elon Bullit. Why?

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