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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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[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 114 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 37 points 3 weeks ago

Unfortunately, you've been replaced by AI.

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

[-] chtk@feddit.nl 11 points 3 weeks ago

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

... "just before giving control back to the driver"?

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

As a moderator of fuck_ai, I'm against all ai existing. As a human being with a functional brain, I'm against cybertrucks existing.

So I'm torn.

[-] ftmpch@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

I'm imagining a montage of the prototypes all destroying themselves in elaborate ways like that bit in Robocop 2.

[-] Philamand@jlai.lu 21 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Well, the cars themselves weren't racist though

Progress!

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 49 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in 34 points 3 weeks ago

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

Also Elon Musk:

[-] andallthat@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

don't call my tesla cars swastikars...

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

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[-] nothingcorporate@lemmy.world 34 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[-] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 30 points 3 weeks ago

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

-The ADL and Chuck Schumer!

[-] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Adding fuel to burning Teslas. What a brilliant idea.

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Just let this brilliant CEO do his thing

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 weeks ago

Man, that's a lot to unpack..

[-] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 10 points 3 weeks ago

There's a lot going on in there. None of it good.

[-] SCmSTR 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 14 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] Technoguyfication@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 11 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 3 weeks ago

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?

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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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[-] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 5 points 3 weeks ago
[-] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago

Yes you have to initiate the installation manually, and if it doesn't have wifi access (not cellular) it doesn't download the updates either.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 11 points 3 weeks ago

I promise it will barely be harder than turning Copilot off...

[-] NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 weeks ago

Your Cybertruck now identifies as a WWII era Porsche tank.

[-] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

He's propped up by foreign governments.

[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

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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[-] InternetRando@lemmy.myserv.one 10 points 3 weeks ago

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?

[-] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 9 points 3 weeks ago

I’m just going to grab some popcorn 🍿

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 7 points 3 weeks ago

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

Errr .. there's a downside.

[-] ScienceGuy722@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

And this is why I will never buy a Tesla.

[-] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Aw, c'mon. There are a lot more reasons not to buy a Tesla than just this.

[-] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 5 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

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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[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 5 points 3 weeks 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?

[-] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

He wants to leave the planet anyway, so why not mess it up terribly before...

[-] oliver@lemmy.pifferi.io 4 points 3 weeks 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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[-] Donkeytown@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago

Another masterful excuse to keep my relationship status with Tesla at ‘it’s complicated.

[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

For me, this is making things much much less nuanced.

[-] mhague@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks 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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