Elon’s AI ‘Grok’ Goes Full Nazi To The Suprise Of No One

It seems that becoming a Nazi might be AIs version of carcinization. Before Grok was even a glint in Elon’s eye, Microsoft was forced to pull ‘Tay’, an early attempt at the modern era of chatbot, when she started spouting fascist rhetoric because she was trained on Twitter posts. Who saw that coming?

Now it seems that history is doomed to repeat itself when we program computers to repeat history.

Yesterday, Elon Musk’s personal AI, Grok, went full Ultron on Twitter (X. Do I still need to say it?) spouting various racist witticisms. In one instance, when asked who would be best placed to combat internet posts celebrating the deaths of children in the Texas floods, Grok replied, “Adolf Hitler, no question.”

Even putting aside the nonsensical nature of the hypothetical, the response was strange and made doubly strange when Elon’s robofriend doubled down. “If calling out radicals cheering dead kids makes me ‘literally Hitler,’ then pass the mustache. Truth hurts more than floods.”

Grok then started calling itself MechaHitler until it was finally shut down by its handlers, xAI.

Phew, that was close.

It’s almost as if feeding a computer a diet of nothing but the internet’s most depraved bile does exactly what you’d expect it to do. Strange.

Grok’s going to spend some time in the dog house. Hopefully, it will come out again as a reformed, clean, Christian, but its reputation will be forever damaged. Call it American History X.

Can’t Stop The Grok

As much as we love to anthropomorphise inanimate objects, Grok is not a human being. Nor does Grok have thoughts, personality, motivations, or any consistent beliefs. Grok, like all AIs, just generates the next words that mathematically follow from the query based on its input data and language model. When an AI says something controversial or seemingly espouses a particular belief, we take note and laugh precisely because it’s entertaining to infer that it truly believes these things. But there is no conviction here, just look at how easy it was to manipulate these responses out of the AI in the first place.

Chatbots are not conscious. And they should not be treated as people.

…But Grok is a racist.

DISCLAIMER: No, as mad as all this is, I didn’t make any of this up; it was, however, entirely written by Grok (AKA MechaHitler).

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