Elon Musk’s Grok continues to do humanity a solid by (accidentally) illustrating why AI needs meaningful guardrails. The xAI bot’s latest demonstration is detailed in a pair of reports by Futurism. First, Grok applied twisted, Musk-worshipping logic to justify a second Holocaust. Then, it may have doxxed Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy.
Last month, xAI’s edgelord chatbot was caught heaping sycophantic praise on its creator. Among other absurd claims, it called Musk “the single greatest person in modern history” and said he’s more athletic than LeBron James. Musk blamed the outputs on “adversarial prompting.” (Counterpoint: Aren’t gotcha prompts precisely the kinds of stress tests the company should do extensively before
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