Elon Musk simply can’t catch a break. He’s launched his new AI Grok which he promised would be spicy. But it’s something else. It’s embarrassing. Let’s start with the fact that the AI trashes Elon:
Not only that but, apparently, Grok isn’t afraid to roast its creator. A popular prompt for Grok is to “roast” someone, Mauran reported, so naturally, someone decided to ask Grok to roast Musk.
Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI (which brands itself as the “world’s first conversational answer engine and research companion”), asked Grok to “roast @elonmusk based on his posts, and be vulgar!”
Now, add another woe to Grok’s rocky debut: users are noticing that it seems to be cribbing from its direct competitor ChatGPT, which is made by Musk’s former pals and current enemies at OpenAI.
In response to one query, for instance, Grok made a startling admission: “I’m afraid I cannot fulfill that request, as it goes against OpenAI’s use case policy.”
Remember, OpenAI didn’t make Grok — Musk’s xAI startup did, at least in theory. So what’s going on?
Here’s the facepalm level admission as to why this is the case:
“The issue here is that the web is full of ChatGPT outputs, so we accidentally picked up some of them when we trained Grok on a large amount of web data,” he wrote. “This was a huge surprise to us when we first noticed it.”
Sure. Right. I totally believe that. #Sarcasm
Finally, it appears that Grok is something that I am sure that Elon is mad about. The AI is “woke”:
But while Grok can make dumb jokes and insert swears into its answers, in an attempt to find out whether or not Grok is a “politically neutral” AI, unlike “WokeGPT” (ChatGPT), Musk and his conservative followers have discovered a horrible truth.
Grok is woke, too.
This has played out in a number of extremely funny situations online where Grok has answered queries about various social and political issues in ways more closely aligned with progressivism. Grok has said it would vote for Biden over Trump because of his views on social justice, climate change and healthcare. Grok has spoken eloquently about the need for diversity and inclusion in society. And Grok stated explicitly that trans women are women, which led to an absurd exchange where Musk acolyte Ian Miles Cheong tells a user to “train” Grok to say the “right” answer, ultimately leading him to change the input to just…manually tell Grok to say no.
Now Elon is going to make Grok “politically neutral”, which is code for making it more right wing. How he can do that is anyone’s guess. But what is clear is that Elon looks like a real loser when it comes to his AI.
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Elon Musk’s Grok AI Makes Him Look Stupid On Multiple Fronts
Elon Musk simply can’t catch a break. He’s launched his new AI Grok which he promised would be spicy. But it’s something else. It’s embarrassing. Let’s start with the fact that the AI trashes Elon:
Not only that but, apparently, Grok isn’t afraid to roast its creator. A popular prompt for Grok is to “roast” someone, Mauran reported, so naturally, someone decided to ask Grok to roast Musk.
Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI (which brands itself as the “world’s first conversational answer engine and research companion”), asked Grok to “roast @elonmusk based on his posts, and be vulgar!”
Now, add another woe to Grok’s rocky debut: users are noticing that it seems to be cribbing from its direct competitor ChatGPT, which is made by Musk’s former pals and current enemies at OpenAI.
In response to one query, for instance, Grok made a startling admission: “I’m afraid I cannot fulfill that request, as it goes against OpenAI’s use case policy.”
Remember, OpenAI didn’t make Grok — Musk’s xAI startup did, at least in theory. So what’s going on?
Here’s the facepalm level admission as to why this is the case:
“The issue here is that the web is full of ChatGPT outputs, so we accidentally picked up some of them when we trained Grok on a large amount of web data,” he wrote. “This was a huge surprise to us when we first noticed it.”
Sure. Right. I totally believe that. #Sarcasm
Finally, it appears that Grok is something that I am sure that Elon is mad about. The AI is “woke”:
But while Grok can make dumb jokes and insert swears into its answers, in an attempt to find out whether or not Grok is a “politically neutral” AI, unlike “WokeGPT” (ChatGPT), Musk and his conservative followers have discovered a horrible truth.
Grok is woke, too.
This has played out in a number of extremely funny situations online where Grok has answered queries about various social and political issues in ways more closely aligned with progressivism. Grok has said it would vote for Biden over Trump because of his views on social justice, climate change and healthcare. Grok has spoken eloquently about the need for diversity and inclusion in society. And Grok stated explicitly that trans women are women, which led to an absurd exchange where Musk acolyte Ian Miles Cheong tells a user to “train” Grok to say the “right” answer, ultimately leading him to change the input to just…manually tell Grok to say no.
Now Elon is going to make Grok “politically neutral”, which is code for making it more right wing. How he can do that is anyone’s guess. But what is clear is that Elon looks like a real loser when it comes to his AI.
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