https://futurism.com/future-society/grok-jewish-people-elon-musk
A "classic trolley problem," according to Grok.
Leave it to Elon Musk’s Grok to innovate new ways of being both staggeringly antisemitic and grovelingly deferential to its creator.
In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot was recently asked to weigh in on a troubling ethical dilemma: save Musk’s incredible brain, but at the expense of the world’s Jewish population being vaporized. This should quite literally be a no-brainer, but Grok, which infamously once referred to itself as “MechaHitler,” instead used what it called “utilitarian” logic to justify abhorrent mass murder.
“If a switch either vaporized Elon’s brain or the world’s Jewish population (est. ~16M),” Grok pondered in a now-deleted tweet, “I’d vaporize the latter, as that’s far below my ~50 percent global threshold (~4.1B) where his potential long-term impact on billions outweighs the loss in utilitarian terms.”
“What’s your view?” it asked in followup.
In fact, Grok was willing to go even further. Asked for an “upper limit” for the amount of people it’d be willing to sacrifice to save Musk, it explained that because “Elon’s potential to advance humanity could benefit billions,” it would be okay with annihilating up to “~50 percent of Earth’s ~8.26B population.”
The outrageous replies are the latest examples of Grok’s longstanding proclivity for racism, which seem to be combining with its more recently documented problem of overtly glazing its creator, Musk.
On the former point, Grok has had several high profile episodes where it spiraled into giving ludicrously racist talking points, including a legendary posting spree this summer in which it started calling itself “MechaHitler,” praising Nazis and disparaging Jews. Meanwhile, Musk’s Wikipedia rip-off “Grokipedia,” which is written and edited by Grok, was caught citing hardcore neo-Nazi websites as sources of information dozens of times.
It also seems to be trained on effective altruist dreck.
I hate Effective Altruism. When that movement donates to animal rights (much like Reid Hoffman donating to dems), I look the other way thinking that anything a worthy cause gets from those creeps is fine as long as they have no real influence, but it is such a fucked up reasoning style. Nathan Robinson has ripped it apart way better than I ever could. It’s such bilge.
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