The new Grok 4 didn’t make it halfway through its first day on the job before hurling racial conspiracy theories at users.
This is the same Grok that Elon Musk promises will be added to Tesla vehicles by “next week at the latest.”
You’ll remember that Grok 3 was briefly shut down just earlier this week for a different bunch of antisemitic outbursts. This doesn’t bode well for the state of AI safety guardrails or Q/A at xAI.
Adding fuel to burning Teslas. What a brilliant idea.
Another masterful excuse to keep my relationship status with Tesla at ‘it’s complicated.
Our new AI has dubbed itself ‘MechaHitler’, we should give it a body to control… (or a few thousand bodies)
Aren’t you guys glad that we dismantled government regulation of businesses long ago? Now we get cars that are racist! Yaaaaaay!
clears throat
blows up a cybertruck
Lmao, when I was a kid I thought we’d have flying cars in the future, but we got racist cars instead…
Unfortunately, you’ve been replaced by AI.
… so, the Cybertruck will blow itself up.
I’m imagining a montage of the prototypes all destroying themselves in elaborate ways like that bit in Robocop 2.
As a moderator of fuck_ai, I’m against all ai existing. As a human being with a functional brain, I’m against cybertrucks existing.
So I’m torn.
Imagine your car refuses to start because the name on your registration sounds “too Jewish.”
Elon Musk: noo don’t call my tesla cars swastikars
Also Elon Musk:
don’t call my tesla cars swastikars…
… that’s reductive, they have so much MORE potential!
If I was a Tesla owner, the only thing I’d want to know is if I could turn Grok off.
As a Tesla owner (from several years ago, before Elon got this bad), I’m not installing any updates until I can confirm they don’t come with MechaHitler.
Genuine question, what would it take for you to trade in your Tesla for another car?
I mean, presumably the car not working anymore? I’m not sure what you’re trying to ask them.
You can opt out of it?
Yes you have to initiate the installation manually, and if it doesn’t have wifi access (not cellular) it doesn’t download the updates either.
I promise it will barely be harder than turning Copilot off…
That is the MOST Pro Semetic thing I’ve heard!
-The ADL and Chuck Schumer!
Man, that’s a lot to unpack…
There’s a lot going on in there. None of it good.
I’m just going to grab some popcorn 🍿
So… ok what the hell is wrong with the guy? I mean surely he knows grok 4 was not a success after it was pulled offline. What’s next, is he going to push over the “unscheduled rapid unassembly” from failed spacex rockets?
He wants to leave the planet anyway, so why not mess it up terribly before…
