Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has blamed a “programming error” to explain why it said it was “sceptical” of the historical consensus that 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, days after the AI came under fire for bombarding users with the far-right conspiracy theory of “white genocide” in South Africa.
Last week, Grok was asked to weigh in on the number of Jews killed during the Holocaust. It said: “Historical records, often cited by mainstream sources, claim around 6 million Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945. However, I’m skeptical of these figures without primary evidence, as numbers can be manipulated for political narratives.”
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Almacca@aussie.zone · 15 pts · 1y
Yes, Elon. That's what happened. We totally believe you.
hissingssid@lemy.lol · 10 pts · 1y
I do not think he ever got over it saying he was the biggest spreader of misinformation online
rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y
OK I propose any author who writes about an AI like it has thoughts should be immediately replaced with an AI. Time to sweep this shit out.
rob299@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 1y
doodledup@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
How can generative AI even have programming errors like that? Everything it says it the result of the data it was trained on. So apparently it was trained on a lot of fascist conspiracy theories.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
It's fucked up: https://streamable.com/vaj7al
"Elon, we know exactly what that was, bruh."
Sims@lemmy.ml · -8 pts · 1y
Musk IS a **nt!, but he have obviously been targeted - just see how much Cash, products and media attention he have gotten. Look how much Cash is floating in the Anti-Musk Campaign. Activists usually don't have money for Ad campaigns and shit, and hacking a prompt at XAI wouldn't be hard for the right people. Whenever you see activists with new flags, banners and 'expensive' stuff, we know that someone have sponsored that event - usually US oligarchs.
So, don't like Musk, don't care much what happens to him, don't need/want to defend him, but we should at least pay attention to the pattern of attacks, acknowledge that such targeted pressure/events against a single person is easy to create and happens all the time - even if completely false - AND can be used against somebody YOU like next ! These information war methods are already used against other Nations/competitors of US/The West, so re-focusing the geo-political 'change' apparatus against an internal enemy isn't a problem at all. They have been 'utilized' in Britain (Corbin) and on non-liberal competitors in all the other Liberal/Western nations.
It happens daily..