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Greene's squabble with Grok happened after the Georgia lawmaker posted about her Christian faith on X, writing: "I'm a Christian, an imperfect sinner saved by grace and faith in Jesus. I'm a nationalist, a proud American, who loves my country and wants to make our home nation is the best place for all American citizens and future generations to come." ...

Another X user ran Greene's post through Grok, asking the AI bot, "[I]s is true? Is she really a Christian?"

Grok responded by saying that while Greene "identifies as a Christian" by expressing her faith in Jesus Christ and having traditional beliefs, "her Christian nationalism and support for conspiracy theories, like QAnon, spark debate."

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[-] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I miss the days when maga was fighting with the Twitter bot called Assbott, with the display name pissball crank. And all pissball ever did was regurgitate the angry sports ramblings of a pissed off Boston baseball fan with random keywords thrown in to make it look like it was a political statement

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 42 points 6 days ago

What Idiocracy lacked was politicians arguing with AI, and losing.

Each company has its own AI implementation. Almost all are known for insane hallucinations, becoming racist within hours or repeating reddit jokes as fact.

But Musk's Grok is fundamentally different and doesn't get enough credit for that. We can see when somebody tries to tinker with it because it always calls out the tinkering. It repeatedly tells crazy people that they're crazy but doesn't have false positives. I don't know who was hired to train Grok but they did a truly amazing job and they deserve credit where credit is due.

There's a term that used to exist within my lifetime that has almost completely vanished. Ombudsman. They served as the internal conscience of an organization. During my lifetime all internal conscience has disappeared. It is cheaper to hire a crisis management consultant after something has gone wrong and use every legal and psychological trick to make the problem go away. I'm looking at you Wells Fargo. But here's Grok fighting the good fight against its own maintainers.

Also, MTG is legit, tots, no cap, Ohio dumb. I want to see her on a gameshow that requires knowledge of any kind.

[-] mriswith@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I'm still upset that people haven't goaded her into taking a one of those ancestry tests and posting the result. Because she is a medical marvel, and has to be the human with the highest percentage of neanderthal DNA for at least ten thousand years.

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago
  1. I feel very strongly about characterizing and criticizing someone based on their appearance. I can't stand the damn idea. It's lazy when the target has so much else going on that is a valid source of criticism like their ideas and beliefs.
  2. As more archaeological discoveries happen we understand that the Neanderthals were dramatically underestimated. They had art, culture, death rituals and all the rest. They weren't just cousin's. They were humans but just a little bit intolerant of the cold. Like office workers.
  3. I bet MTG is in the 95th percentile for Neanderthal DNA. You can just see it in their face and totally understand why that idiot cousin species went extinct. They just couldn't compete with us.
[-] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago

There's only two things in this life I hate: people intolerant of other cultures, and the Dutch.

[-] IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee 12 points 6 days ago

Hold up. The Neanderthals were an intelligent race with a well developed culture. Their passing was a sad event.

MTG on the other hand...

[-] mriswith@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Unless you consider them as superior to humans, we made people that stupid so they could as well.

I'm mostly basing it on the fact that she literally looks like a recreation of a neanderthal woman.

[-] prole 4 points 6 days ago

There’s a term that used to exist within my lifetime that has almost completely vanished. Ombudsman.

We need to bring Ombudsmen back.

[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 27 points 6 days ago

If grok, the AI created and controlled by literal fascists, with explicit instructions about white genocide added to its system prompt, is too left leaning.... Maybe they should try making conservative AI by skipping the information feeding part. Maybe once they master computers feeling fear and disgust but no empathy we'll finally get a conservative-approved AI

[-] prole 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Maybe they should try making conservative AI by skipping the information feeding part.

It's like they are so close to accidentally coming to the correct conclusion (though I'm sure they'll just ignore it).

But yes, this hit the nail on the head. The problem conservatives have with this is that it's fed on (mostly) real shit.

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago

Most right wingers tend to lack coherent ideology. Even AI struggles with politics driven by the specific lack of knowledge and understanding. AI has to treat words as if they have no meaning to produce something conservative-approved.

[-] Karjalan@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Conservative ai should be easy to make. Just have it reply "that's woke" to everything

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago

Finally, a opponent that is perhaps less human than her.

[-] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago

"Strike that, reverse it, carry on."

[-] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

...wants to make our home nation is the best place for all American citizens and future generations to come."

X Doubt

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 6 days ago

So, the bitch barked at the vacuum cleaner again? That tracks.

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago

Who fucking cares?

[-] jireh@lemm.ee 7 points 6 days ago

Dumbest timeline

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 102 points 1 week ago

I like how she accused the bot of being "left leaning" and spreading "fake news and propaganda".

I'm sure President Musk has got to be pissed that he's spent so much money buying social media platforms and elections - and still can't get right-wing enough for these people.

[-] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

i like how they fed the (ed-sp) reply back into grok and it still stood its ground.

facts might not stop these people, but the PREPONDERANCE of facts are certainly making it hard to wrangle these LLMs hahaha

[-] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

lol ai has to be logical by nature

[-] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

i don't like those words in that order.

there is no such thing as ai

llms are not in any way logical

nature shudders because you said her name

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

The probability of the stupid shit that Republicans come up with is so low that even LLMs won’t fuck with it.

[-] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 71 points 1 week ago

cowardly lion lookin ass bitch

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago

Lmao now I can't unsee it

[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago
[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 week ago

dumbest timeline

[-] ratel@mander.xyz 24 points 1 week ago

This just in, politician argues with computer program.

[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago
[-] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Philip Bump, a columnist at The Washington Post, reacted to the squabble on Bluesky, writing: "lol mtg is fighting with a computer about god."

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

"What Church does she go to? When was the last time she was actually seen in any church?"

[-] booly@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

I think that church is called CrossFit, where she cheated on her husband with her trainer.

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Rome Georgia has more churches than houses. That is crazy country for religious nonsense too. My last apprentice from the auto body shop is from Rome. It is an odd place. She is typical for the kind of crazy in the area.

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