This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says

https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/tesla-grok-mom-9.6956930

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Treczoks@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 317d (1 reply)

Maybe it is time to make parents to understand the dangers of AI. They are worse than the perceived dangers from social media.

Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works · -4 pts · 317d

I understood that reference

NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 317d (1 reply)

From what I’ve read this is the “NSFW” version known as Gork which is designed to talk like an edgy teen movie douche from 2005. You have to enable this persona.

TheFogan@programming.dev · 14 pts · 317d

Don't have a tesla, not sure if there's any way to test, but looks to me like the user at least claims she ensured NSFW was not turned on. and that gork was listed a just "lazy male".

I don't dabble with it so I can't say if there's a way that could be turned on by mistake on grok's settings elsewhere and it carries over to the car or similar.

pokexpert30@jlai.lu · 15 pts · 317d (11 replies)

as much as I hate elon, grok, and tesla, this makes rather little sense. Even with full on hallicinations, this sounds chaotic.

db2@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 317d (8 replies)

On the other hand Elon Musk is a pedophile.

lastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 317d

Clearly Grok was trained on Musk's dms

sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 317d (6 replies)

I never heard about this. Source?

brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 317d (4 replies)

https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-jeffrey-epstein-family-ghislaine-maxwell-trump-2082228

https://factually.co/fact-checks/entertainment/elon-musk-epstein-list-01763a

But folks may be referencing Musk’s very weird family life, like all his exes living and raising children in one estate. Less sure about that, but there’s plenty of literally. All this is well reported too.

VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 317d

Your second source is very clear on the fact that "but the presence in documents is not the same as an allegation of criminal conduct" and repeats this information multiple times. I don't say he has nothing to be accountable for, just that this is very far from any proof and people just bend it to fit their narrative.

sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works · -3 pts · 317d (2 replies)

Not convincing enough for such an extreme accusation.

brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 317d (1 reply)

Yeah it's more of a "Lemmy meme" than a hard accusation to me.

But there may be context I'm not aware of.

sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 317d

Well it's gross and makes the speaker sound petty and stupid. But that's not your fault.

Doomsider@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 316d

His Dad is a pedophile who molested Elon and Elon hung out with Jeffrey Epstein.

This is like the Michael Jackson thing, people will always deny the truth. The truth is nothing against fandom and massive public relation campaigns.

I personally don't need smoking gun at this point. If you come from pedo stock, hang out with the king of pedos, defend pedos, accuse others of being a pedo because you are projecting, and fund pedophiles you are a fucking pedophile.

sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works · -4 pts · 317d

Yeah that's a terrible title. I wonder if it was written by AI.

Let me try a better one:

  • Mother claims Grok AI told her son to send nudes
  • Mother claims Grok AI told her 12-year-old son to send nudes
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works · -4 pts · 317d

Prompt: you are my horny waifu and we are sexting
Grok: send nudes

Kid: mom, i swear, i was asking about soccer!!!

i hate elon musk as much as the next guy, but i've used grok... sure it has all kinds of obvious biases, but it won't just go off the rails unprompted

vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 317d

Just treat whatever "advice" these things "give" as given by the person who made the decision to host them.

Should be simple.

Instead they are already being treated as some magic, not a tool inseparable from the owner, or as a living thing. It's idiotic.

wuffah@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 317d

I still find it incomprehensible that some text on a screen can cause so many problems. Have you tried not using a chatbot?

HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 315d

I hate Elon but this just seems sus, like I mean it clearly wasnt grok but an LLM trained on the Epstein files. Epstein didn't kill himself they just uploaded him into the grid using some crazy Disney technology and now he's asking children for nudes.

If that sounds crazy... It's because it is.

myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip · -3 pts · 317d

She was trying to get in someone’s DMs and messed up.