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Not even a single full day into operation, and the new Grok 4 is hurling racist conspiracy theories at users.

According to Elon Musk, no later than next week, it will be added to Tesla vehicles.

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[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Swastikar, now with Mecha Hitler.

[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

Every day I am so glad that 8 years ago I decided not to buy a Tesla.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah yes, nothing could go wrong by giving MechaHitler mobility...

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 9 points 2 days ago

Noooo! He is gonna drive straight through Poland into Russia in winter, and then run out of power!

[–] Part4@infosec.pub 7 points 1 day ago

I think he has actually found a way to make the cyber truck even shitter, which feels like some sort of weird achievement.

[–] besselj@lemmy.ca 143 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Imagine asking it for directions and it starts talking about white genocide in South Africa, lmao

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 87 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Worse, it figures out the driver isn't white and forces them into oncoming traffic.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Or starts running over non-white pedestrians

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 48 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Oh, so that's why they insisted on vision-only! LiDAR isn't racist enough

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Coming up next week: Captchas where you have to click on all the pictures containing non-white people

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 14 points 3 days ago

If it determines their name sounds like (((one of them))), MechaHitler could lock its doors and detonate its batteries, helping to continue its namesake’s mission.

[–] FleetingTit@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago

Imagine asking it to take you to Taco Bell and the car just mows down the nearest mexican.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 15 points 3 days ago

I was thinking it only lets you "turn to the right". No left turns allowed.

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[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Imagining a Cybertruck going apeshit yelling about praising Hitler because it disagreed with the driver and crashing into a ditch 😂 😭

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Exactly the feature I was looking for on a new car.

Imagine the joys of commuting through rush hour with an insane, racist, conspiracy theory obsessed talking machine every day for the rest of your life.

It's like a fever dream

It's like a dream.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 81 points 3 days ago

Tesla owner: "I don't care about politics, I just like the car. I'm not a bad person!"

car is in the background screaming, "Jews will not replace us!!"

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 72 points 3 days ago (14 children)

Literally why would anyone want that. Even racist elon musk lovers. Why would anyone want their car to have an LLM.

[–] besselj@lemmy.ca 51 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My guess is that some hardcore Musk followers must be very lonely at this point, so much so that they prefer talking to chatbots.

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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Oh and I hope Tesla stocks go down even more!

[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 3 points 1 day ago

Saving the environment with electric car to later add an energy guzzling racist chat bot to the front panel. /nottheonion?

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

Still can't actually drive it's self like he has been promising for over a decade. Musk will never deliver.

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If someone bought a cyber-truck without the Grock, they bought it as it was. Shoving Grock down the consumers' throats without their consent would constitute a material alteration of tge car that was originally bought. This would then constitute graffiti.

Edit: if the vehicle had not been fully purchased and paid, this would be potential grounds for a refund because the material alteration of the good would make the contract for the sale of the vehicle voidable.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Very confused about what the point of this would be. People don't use their cars enough to justify having something like that installed, and it seems like it would just make things more expensive for xAI for not much benefit at all.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

It's so Musk can give himself money he would otherwise not get. The user experience has no part in this.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 10 points 2 days ago

Adoption and usage is a huge value for AI companies.

In order to train data, they need data from humans. Just like social media companies need users to create content. And they're already crawling & stealing everything they can off the internet. But they need more.

Google, Facebook - they're shoving it in everything they own to get more user usage so they can feed their AI beast.

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[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 51 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Man the actual cyberpunk sucks ass.

[–] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 days ago

Even the bugged release version from 2077 was better than reality

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[–] last_philosopher@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

What does this even mean? If you have a phone in your tesla, you already have grok in a tesla vehicle. Amazing how the Media-Tesla-hype complex works.

[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

when getting blasted with fascist remarks on your daily commute is becoming the norm, we as a society should start asking questions.

I miss the days of good AM radio too. Also good FM radio. Ham radio never goes bad.

[–] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Another reason to not get a Nazimobile

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Bad day to be a jewish Telsa driver.

[–] brrk@lemmynsfw.com 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the chuckle, that got me good. I just imagined an old Jewish man groaning "Oy vey..." after starting his car and seeing a greeting message along the lines of "HI! I'm MECHA-Hitler, your new onboard Ai assistant!"

(It's a surreal dark-humor chuckle, not an antisemitic chuckle, just to clarify, since this is the internet...)

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Don’t worry, on the internet you’re only antisemitic if you oppose the genocide in Gaza.

/s

[–] klu9@piefed.social 18 points 2 days ago

Grok reveals cause of latest Tesla FSD crash

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago

He's really leaning into the Swasticar thing isn't he?

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I can't even get a PRD approved in a week...

[–] Kurious84@eviltoast.org 13 points 2 days ago

Wow he's going balls out on the swasticar.

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 2 points 1 day ago

If Grok is targeting Jews or any specific ethnicity, maybe not let it out in the road?

If it just runs over people by random, well that's a different matter.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Until there are consequences for fascism, this is just circlejerking

[–] SidTheShuckle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My dad fsr wont ever unlease his tesla, he doesnt care

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wouldn't normally ask this in any other context, but: is it possible your dad hates the Jews?

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm... very sad at how germane that question is in 2025.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

As I typed it I read it and I was like "do I shoot my shot and make the joke?" and I had a rare moment of self-restraint

But Grok would be like "you had me at 𝔤𝔢𝔯𝔪𝔞𝔫"

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Nazi vehicles with Nazi brains

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