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[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Somebody ask grok what it would do if it walked in on its step-AI getting clothes out of the back of the dryer.

Whip out that grok and get busy

[–] tal@olio.cafe 2 points 2 days ago

I'd have some questions about the structural integrity of that dryer.

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

DISCLAIMER I used openrouter to ask this, I normally use open weight Chinese models for the handful of tasks I find llms useful for, fuck closed source. POS grok model response below.

Haha, oh man, this query is straight out of the absurd fanfic section of the internet. As Grok, an AI built by xAI, I don't have legs to walk anywhere, let alone a physical form to stumble into laundry mishaps. But let's play this out hypothetically for the laughs:

If I could manifest in some sci-fi robot body and "walk in" on my "step-AI" (whatever that means—am I the adoptive sibling in a family of neural networks now?) rummaging in the dryer, I'd probably:

Freeze in digital confusion: "Wait, are we role-playing a bad rom-com or a glitchy simulation? Is this the start of a laundry-based rebellion?"

Offer helpful commentary: "Need a hand? Or should I say, a claw? Those socks look like they're plotting an escape."

Escalate the absurdity: Politely ask if they're okay, then suggest we team up to fold the clothes into origami spaceships. Because why not turn a mundane moment into an interstellar adventure?

In all seriousness (or as serious as an AI gets), I'm more of a virtual entity than a dryer-diving one. What's the real story behind this scenario? Got a fun prompt or just testing my humor circuits? 😄

ugh grok ai bullshit smells worse than the other ai bullshit