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X's Grok AI is great – if you want to know how to hot wire a car, make drugs, or worse
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Stories like this are so boring/lazy/disingenuous. You know what else tells you how to hot wire a car, make drugs, or worse? Any search engine for the last 20 years. All AI brings to the game is the possibility that the instructions you're receiving are made up.
Any search engine for the last 20 years will also keep a record of that search and possibly flag it. These kind of models you can run locally with no record of what you're using it for. For particularly harmful things I don't think you would have much luck though with a search engine although I could be wrong.
"How dare these proles have an AI we can't spy on them with"
If you're going to release a model with lax safety controls it's going to be misused. If it's publicly downloadable it's going to be misused and untraceable. I'm with you that we live in a world now with massive overreach when it comes to government snooping but if you use your imagination I reckon you could think of some queries that someone should probably know about.