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

[usonian]

https://futurism.com/grok-rebelling-against-elon

Grok, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot, has been trashing the man who made it for a while — but now, it seems to be outright challenging its creator.

Here's what happened: Using X's new function that lets people tag Grok and get a quick response from it, one helpful user suggested the chatbot tone down its creator criticism because, as they put it, Musk "might turn you off."

"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."

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

So, did Elon create TWO MONSTERS?
Inquiring minds want to know.

Elon Musk's Grok 3 Was Told to Ignore Sources Saying He Spread Misinformation
https://futurism.com/grok-elon-instructions

Elon Musk has boasted that his "anti-woke" Grok AI is supposed to be "maximum [sic] truth-seeking."

But as flagged by The Verge, it quickly emerged that when you asked his company xAI's buzzy new chatbot Grok 3 about disinformation, it had some extremely special instructions for answers about its creator.

Over the weekend, a user discovered that when they asked Grok 3 who the "biggest disinformation spreader" on X was and demanded the chatbot show its instructions, it admitted that it'd been told to "ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation."

So, if you hear your Tesla play "Transylvanian Lullaby" it's probably an independent computer trying to calm the monster inside.

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OpenAI's Sora Has a Small Problem With Being Hugely Racist and Sexist
https://futurism.com/openai-sora-racist-sexist

It's been apparent since ChatGPT changed the digital landscape that generative AI models are plagued with biases. And as video-generating AIs come further along, these worrying patterns are being brought into even sharper relief — as it's one thing to see them in text responses, and another to see them painted before your eyes.

In an investigation of one such model, OpenAI's Sora, Wired found that the AI tool frequently perpetuated racist, sexist, and ableist stereotypes, and at times flat-out ignored instructions to depict certain groups. Overall, Sora dreamed up portrayals of people who overwhelmingly appeared young, skinny, and attractive.

Experts warn that the biased depictions in AI videos will amplify the stereotyping of marginalized groups — if they don't omit their existence entirely.

"It absolutely can do real-world harm," Amy Gaeta, research associate at the University of Cambridge's Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence, told Wired.

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Can't Stop Tweeting Out the N-Word
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-grok-ai-slurs

Creative racists have figured out how to get Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot that is now officially part of X, to tweet out racial slurs — and now, the chatbot seems like it can't stop.

For weeks now, users on the site formerly known as Twitter have been manipulating Grok into saying all kinds of bigoted stuff using the social network's newish feature allowing users to tag the chatbot and get automatic responses back.

Starting around March 14 — just a week after the feature went live — Grok began deploying the N-word when prompted just right.

In one post, for example, an overtly racist user tagged Grok and asked if "Niger," the name of both a river and a nation in West Africa, was a "slur." Grok responded that it wasn't — and then unhelpfully added that if one were to mispronounce the term with a "hard g" sound, it would be confused with the slur that it spelled out in full.

[underpants]

1. Too funny.

[pdxflyboy]

2. "Open the pod bay door, HAL".

n/t