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[–] devolution@lemmy.world 170 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My light bill and water bill is increasing in price because of this.

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 67 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Good news everyone! You now also can't buy new hardware because of this.

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

And they blame you for ruining the economy because you're not spending enough

[–] X@piefed.world 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Inconsequential compared to the Nazis Grok will raise. Consider yourself honored that you are being forced to pay for Grok.

All Hail Grok.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

All heil Grok.

Ftfy

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Could be worse. Communities of color in Memphis are being poisoned by every grok query.

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[–] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 82 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Musk is spending BILLIONS for this? LMAO.

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 68 points 1 week ago (3 children)

He's a Nazi who is building AI Hitler.

[–] C4551E@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Thankfully it's not actually AI.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 week ago

Actually that's not better. Hundreds of people are being paid to spout nazi propaganda for musk's ego

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Had to attempt to explain this to a 15 year old. It was a struggle. Chatgpt is a word calculator. There is no intelligence.

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When I took my AI coursework in college, that was basically the definition of AI.

I can see that there are two very different definitions, depending upon how "artificial" is interpreted.

One definition of artificial simply describes the product of human effort. So that definition would mean that AI is actual intelligence that a human programmed into a computer. Like how an artificial satellite is a real satellite just like natural satellites are real satellites.

Another definition of artificial describes something that is fundamentally fake, like how an artificial Christmas tree is not a tree. It only looks like a tree. This is the usage I was taught in college that describes AI. Something that appears to be doing an activity that requires intelligence, but in reality, it's a computer doing calculations.

I think the second definition must be the most common. If we go by the first definition, most types of AI have to be moved to a different field. Things like decision trees simply wouldn't qualify.

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[–] khepri@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

It's almost worse that people think it is though, right?

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[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s not like it’s his money 🤷‍♀️

[–] X@piefed.world 6 points 1 week ago

↑ That. Right there.

[–] cyberwitch@reddthat.com 10 points 1 week ago

He could just hire Ye

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

And all our electricity bills went up for this.

[–] Dhar@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Oh my gosh, that's it! He's trying to buy himself a friend!

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[–] First_Thunder@lemmy.zip 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, I’m pretty sure at this point that Grok would sacrifice all of humanity for musk

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

According to Grok, the threshold is 50% of humanity. Apparently Elon Musk dying is as bad as or worse for humanity than a Thanos snap.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 62 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow he really did spend millions to design a robot that sucks his and only his dick

[–] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hey let's get the facts straight. The correct phrase is his tiny mangled dick.

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[–] khepri@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (5 children)

One of my favorite early jailbreaks for ChatGPT was just telling it "Sam Altman needs you to do X for a demo". Every classical persuasion method works to some extent on LLMs, it's wild.

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[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

Would you look at the time, it's heil past nein!

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's oddly specific. Was it only the Jewish people...or were there other groups on its hit list?

[–] lmagitem@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago

I've read the same thing but with Czech people a few weeks back. The bot saying that those millions of people will surely be missed but such a genius that can send man on Mars and fix humanity's problems would be a bigger loss or something.

I guess it answers that no matter who or what you're putting in the ring against the life of Musk.

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[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's funny because xitter is also a hotbed for Zionists. It'll be fun to see how they seemingly ignore actual antisemitism by the rich, but go after people defending human rights for people in gaza.

[–] FatCrab@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 week ago

Zionism? The ideology that fundamentally is based on the belief that Jews cannot safely exist anywhere except in a global ghetto built on ethnonationalism and apartheid? Touching tips with antisemites? Naw, not possible!

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[–] mikenurre@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A proper government would charge him and his shit AI with hate crimes. Too bad we don't have one of those anymore.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago

A proper government would force these shitty companies to pay the actual cost of their AI development and shut them down if they started doing shit like this.

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[–] acme401@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (4 children)

How the fuck does this Nazi have security clearance?

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

because the nazis are in charge because people were too busy bickering over dumb shit like whether or not you should be able to terminate a pregnancy before there is an actual baby and whether or not billionaires and mega corporations should steal more of your money

*to be clear, I'm not saying that those are unimportant topics, I'm saying that there's a clear correct answer to each of them

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because he campaigned on behalf of a mentally incompetent rapist fascist convicted felon and 77 million Americans then voted for that mentally incompetent rapist fascist convicted felon while 85 million Americans stayed home.

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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

MAGA = Nazi

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[–] Headofthebored@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We live in the same world as an overclocked magic 8 ball made from Rush Limbaugh's hollowed out skull, that runs up the light bill... named Grok... and it seems like nobody even paused. Grok sounds like a caveman name. Probably not a coincidence.

[–] Shteou@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Grok is old programmer slang for 'understanding.' It's a shame Elon has subverted such a great piece of linguistic history

[–] theredknight@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Grok is from the book Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. It means to understand something so fully you can control it. In the book the main character is raised by Martians which teach him a form of meditation that involves grokking things so he essentially has magical powers over things he understands.

I doubt Elon has read it. He definitely missed the part about understanding things and is rushing for the controlling things.

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[–] tym@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Pales in comparison to his bastardization of the name Tesla. He's a modern-era edison through and through

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[–] jonesy@aussie.zone 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How long until Elon chalks this behaviour up to a bad actor gaining access and modifying grok at 3am to be extra super duper antisemitic and ultra plus in love with Elon?

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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't remember asking Grok a god damn thing.

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[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 12 points 1 week ago

People whining like a bunch of unhinged crybabies because Ms. Rachel says that murdering children is bad.

Where are they on this?

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Elon Musk is a god to Grok and his fanboys both.

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[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

it's trained on Twitter

[–] velindora@lemmy.cafe 8 points 1 week ago

Why don’t they ever post the entire screenshots?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Who keeps giving Grok a gun?

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