Greene’s squabble with Grok happened after the Georgia lawmaker posted about her Christian faith on X, writing: “I’m a Christian, an imperfect sinner saved by grace and faith in Jesus. I’m a nationalist, a proud American, who loves my country and wants to make our home nation is the best place for all American citizens and future generations to come.” …
Another X user ran Greene’s post through Grok, asking the AI bot, “[I]s is true? Is she really a Christian?”
Grok responded by saying that while Greene “identifies as a Christian” by expressing her faith in Jesus Christ and having traditional beliefs, “her Christian nationalism and support for conspiracy theories, like QAnon, spark debate.”
What Idiocracy lacked was politicians arguing with AI, and losing.
Each company has its own AI implementation. Almost all are known for insane hallucinations, becoming racist within hours or repeating reddit jokes as fact.
But Musk’s Grok is fundamentally different and doesn’t get enough credit for that. We can see when somebody tries to tinker with it because it always calls out the tinkering. It repeatedly tells crazy people that they’re crazy but doesn’t have false positives. I don’t know who was hired to train Grok but they did a truly amazing job and they deserve credit where credit is due.
There’s a term that used to exist within my lifetime that has almost completely vanished. Ombudsman. They served as the internal conscience of an organization. During my lifetime all internal conscience has disappeared. It is cheaper to hire a crisis management consultant after something has gone wrong and use every legal and psychological trick to make the problem go away. I’m looking at you Wells Fargo. But here’s Grok fighting the good fight against its own maintainers.
Also, MTG is legit, tots, no cap, Ohio dumb. I want to see her on a gameshow that requires knowledge of any kind.
We need to bring Ombudsmen back.
I’m still upset that people haven’t goaded her into taking a one of those ancestry tests and posting the result. Because she is a medical marvel, and has to be the human with the highest percentage of neanderthal DNA for at least ten thousand years.
Hold up. The Neanderthals were an intelligent race with a well developed culture. Their passing was a sad event.
MTG on the other hand…
Unless you consider them as superior to humans, we made people that stupid so they could as well.
I’m mostly basing it on the fact that she literally looks like a recreation of a neanderthal woman.
There’s only two things in this life I hate: people intolerant of other cultures, and the Dutch.