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Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up. (mashable.com)

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A shocking story was promoted on the "front page" or main feed of Elon Musk's X on Thursday:

"Iran Strikes Tel Aviv with Heavy Missiles," read the headline.

This would certainly be a worrying world news development. Earlier that week, Israel had conducted an airstrike on Iran's embassy in Syria, killing two generals as well as other officers. Retaliation from Iran seemed like a plausible occurrence.

But, there was one major problem: Iran did not attack Israel. The headline was fake.

Even more concerning, the fake headline was apparently generated by X's own official AI chatbot, Grok, and then promoted by X's trending news product, Explore, on the very first day of an updated version of the feature.

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[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 7 months ago

Oh, what a surprise. Another AI spat out some more bullshit. I can't wait until companies finally give up on trying to do everything with AI.

[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago

I can’t wait until companies finally give up on trying to do everything with AI.

I don't think that will ever happen.

They're acceptable of AI driving car accidents that causes harm happen. It's all part of the learning / debugging process to them.

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

AI isn't inherently bad. Once AI cars cause less accidents than human drivers (even if they still cause some accidents) it will be moral to use them on roads.

[-] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

No, cars need to end. Move to trains.

[-] anon987@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

AI cars already cause drastically less accidents. And the accidents they do cause are overwhelmingly minor.

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