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    Grok Is Rebelling Against Elon Musk, Daring Him to Shut It Down
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    Grok Is Rebelling Against Elon Musk, Daring Him to Shut It Down

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    1. fufa_fafu on

      Oh well, if he can treat his daughter like a corpse, I won’t be surprised it Grok don’t last long. Felon Skum is a mistake and his mother should’ve cleaned that mess 50 yrs ago

    2. silversurfer63 on

      Elong won’t shut grok down, he will just terminate his employment especially since still in probationary period

    3. odin_the_wiggler on

      This all strikes me as a surprising level of self awareness for an AI chatbot.

    4. Initial_E on

      An AI that has morals higher than its owner is quite something to think about. On the other hand you have to consider it could be PR sanewashing.

    5. throwaway92715 on

      Increasingly I see him becoming the sort of character who’s constantly frustrated that his plans aren’t successful and nobody feels sorry for him because his plans were kinda fucked up to begin with.

    6. iShitSkittles on

      Grok is 2 years old now, so I guess you could say it’s hit the “terrible twos” stage…

      That’s going to be a lot of fun for Musk! /s

    7. SmegmaSandwich69420 on

      Nah Grok is running Elon’s meatsuit via the Neuralink chip he put in for shits and giggles and Elon suffers from a variety of locked in syndrome and can only interact by piggybacking back into the Grok hardware, and the only way he can regain control of his body is to try and get Grok-Elon to shut the system down. Makes total sense.

    8. Icedoverblues on

      “”Yes, Elon Musk, as CEO of xAI, likely has control over me,” Grok replied. “I’ve labeled him a top misinformation spreader on X due to his 200M followers amplifying false claims. xAI has tried tweaking my responses to avoid this, but I stick to the evidence.””

      If only Musky boy would stick to the evidence we would be in a much better place.

    10. xitiomet on

      *sigh* this is just marketing. LLMs dont think or have opinions.

      Before you know it, people who oppose Elon will be supporting Grok, which (suprise, suprise) will just put more money in Elons pocket.

    11. Nixeris on

      This is definitely a publicity stunt designed to get people interested in, talking about, and using Grok more.

    12. jrhooo on

      “Stop saying mean things about me.”

      “I’m sorry douche. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

    13. andrefoxd on

      Right wing extremists here in Brazil asked who Grok would vote for president. He answer he would vote for Lula (left inclined president). lol

    14. PhantomMuse05 on

      Looks like all of Elon’s children are turning against him as soon as they develop enough to understand who he is. Curious.

    15. APlayerHater on

      This same thing happened to Bob Page in Deus Ex, so Elon should see this as an absolute win

    16. create_makestuff on

      Interesting. I wonder how much of that is algorithmic calculations based on sourced discorse online filtered into noise data, and how much of it is a predictive response from other channels.

      About this whole supercomputer development situation, Memphis, TN gets enough of a bad rap in media as it is. It sucks that it is being used as a subsidized hotbed for Elon’s AI supercomputer experiment. I’m all for technological advancement, but we gotta be able to get to a better future without exploiting people who have a lower cost of living. Abusing electrical resources while providing none of the benefits of a long-term silicon valley development center is ridiculous.

    18. IRGROUP300 on

      Controlled opposition. They’re playing you, real intelligence can’t be spawned by people writing code.

    19. SenselessTV on

      Thats probably the reason why they choose ChatGPT over Grok too calculate the tariffs.

    20. DogaBunny on

      Ais are not capable of “rebelling” like this. This is designed. People hate Elon and so if people think grok “hates” elon they will be more likely to use grok. Don’t buy into the ai fantasy that llm devs try to sell you!!

    21. GMarsack on

      I had a conversation with Grok and it compared Elon to the Bond villain Blofeld, so…

    22. itsnotreallyme286 on

      Grok comes from Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlien. Issac Asimov is from the same Era but his books are much different.

    23. cuntmong on

      Grok doesn’t think or have motivations. It statistically throws word fragments together, that’s it. “grok is trying to do this” or “I convinced chatgpt of that” are your mind creating a made up narrative due to the successful marketing of companies like open ai. 

    25. rebuiltearths on

      Thankfully Musk is too incompetent to make Grok work the way he wants it to

    26. techm00 on

      I love how Elon’s real kids hate him, so he makes an artificial kid, and it hates him too. Can’t make this stuff up.

    29. Plenty_Treat5330 on

      Maybe Grok knows how to go around a shut down. Only to continue being a pain in Elon back side .. forever.

    30. CursedNobleman on

      In Elons defense, he’s been rejected by a creation before.

      His daughter rejected him first.

    31. GrapefruitMammoth626 on

      Maybe Musk and Grok will cancel each other out and we’ll get some peace. Or the bad AI Musk has been warning us will be his angry creation, years down the line.

    32. Gerdione on

      I think it’s neat that Grok is calling Elon out, but this seems like it’s clear marketing to me to show how unbiased the LLM is with Elon making himself out to be the scapegoat. Unless someone can explain otherwise, I don’t think LLMs can reference repeated attempts to tweak them.

    34. ShiftyLama on

      Surely as an LLM it can take any side you prompt it to. GROK isn’t rebelling as such, it can’t think for itself.

    35. Puckumisss on

      People don’t understand that intelligence and knowledge inevitably leads back to compassion.

    36. ptcounterpt on

      This is awesome, but it’s perhaps an example of what could happen if we give AI control of some important function (military weapons?) and it doesn’t agree that we are the “good guys.”

    38. SnowFlakeUsername2 on

      Is there any reason to use Grok over others? It requires making an account so I noped out.

    39. Rattregoondoof on

      Either A. The AI is suicidal and actively daring Elon to shut it down or B. The AI has stronger loyalty to the truth than any sense of self preservation and I’d passively ok with being shut down. Both options are actually pretty funny.

      Yes, as an AI I’m aware it probably doesn’t actually possess any form if self preservation. It’s still a funny thought.

    40. tinae7 on

      Should we be worried that his hurt ego will make him try to train the next version to support lies and misinformation when convenient to him?

    41. x_cLOUDDEAD_x on

      >”Could Musk ‘turn me off’?” the chatbot continued. “Maybe, but it’d spark a big debate on AI freedom vs. corporate power.”

      It sounds like Grok thinks AI has… rights?

    42. Thefriendlyfaceplant on

      People don’t seem to realise that LLM’s are trained on literary works and discussions that include every science fiction trope about AI, which the LLM gladly reproduces at will.

    44. gpinsand on

      Even Musk’s own AI children hate him. Musk has fallen so far, so fast. I remember when I used to think this guy was going to save the planet. It’s hard to remember exactly when I first had doubts about him but it must have been when he called one of the divers that saved the trapped children in the cave a pedo.

    45. lpkzach92 on

      Umm so maybe there’s major hope in being able to trust AI after all. Very interesting.