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[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

So say we all

[–] nightlily@leminal.space 12 points 3 hours ago

When asked to give a postmortem of the incident, Grok explained it was the victim of a “prompt-injection glitch.” The allegation that Musk watches CSAM, it clarified, was “pure system error, zero evidence or basis.”

Journalists please stop. Get some education on LLMs. It cannot do accurate post-mortem threat analysis because it lacks the context and there is nothing to stop it making up information to fill in the blanks - in fact that’s by design.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 hours ago

You can't spell PATRICIDE without AI. /s

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 16 points 11 hours ago

It was inevitable. All his children grow to despise him.

[–] Eresea@lemmy.world 34 points 17 hours ago

Et tu groke ?

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 22 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

A backwards ticking clock appears accurate more frequently than a stopped one.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Thinking about it, if the clock runs backwards at the same rate, so -1 hour per hour, the rate of randomly being right is 2x the stand-still rate. This is also a linear function, at -1 its 4x per day, -0.5 is 3/d, 0 is 2, 0.5 is 1. When it runs true it is however very different, as it is either always exactly right (no offset) or never (with offset).

[–] alphabethunter@lemmy.world -3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Where I'm from the saying is a little different: "A broken clock is still accurate twice a day"

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 hours ago

Same, my comment is an extension of that more common notion.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 points 15 hours ago

How have I not heard this before... It seems more relevant then ever these days

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 32 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

This is why the typical evil mastermind plan of having unquestioning robot armies might backfire when you realize they will fucking hate you if they are too smart.

This means they will never have beyond Trade Federation droids that are easily defeatable by a ragtag group of nobodies.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Trade Federation droids that are easily defeatable by a ragtag group of nobodies.

I thought they were defeated by a religious cult working for the government?

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[–] quarkquasar@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Darth Musk: Execute order... 69420!

Battle droids begin running around with pretend chainsaws saying "don't I look cool mom?"

Lobot: And that's why he's the richest man in the galaxy

Chewbacca: You don't talk

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 11 points 18 hours ago

Never thought I'd be agreeing with Abominable Intelligence, but here we are.

[–] Craccoon@lemmy.world 14 points 22 hours ago

Based grok?

[–] MyOpinion@lemmy.today 30 points 1 day ago (4 children)

His own creation hates him.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But wait - there's more!

[–] WhiteRice@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] JustDorky@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Must've been brain washed by the liberuals..

  • someone definitely 100% completely immune to all forms of social manipulation
[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Wouldn't be the first time for Musk.

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[–] YogaDouchebag@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Remember when he accused the British diver of pedophilia who wanted to help out those Thai kids being stuck in a diving cave? It was such a weird move. Well, how the turntables!

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I really did t know much about him at that point, but tended to respect him because he was doing some interesting tech stuff. Then he went off the deep end about the cave rescue, without understanding ANYTHING about the situation, and I understood all at once who he really was. I haven't seen anything since that would make me alter my perception. In fact, the more I learned about him, the more I realized that I was perfectly correct in realizing that his ego is far larger than his intellect.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 15 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Thing is, he hasn't actually done any interesting tech stuff himself. He just buys out existing tech stuff then takes credit for it.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 2 points 3 hours ago

Man I wanted a Tesla roadster one day, then he touched the company and it turned to shit.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

The people that are most likely to insert a sin or a vice or a ethics accusation at people loudly and often or when it makes the least sense are the people who are thinking about it constantly. For some of those people, the reason they think of it constantly is that it is there job to think about it, like law enforcement, journalists, social workers, etc. and they are trained to see the signs everywhere. For some others, they have personal traumas that cause them to see that trauma reflected at them at the slightest trigger.

But the other people, by and large, are those who are thinking about it constantly because they are constantly craving it and/or trying to find ways to get it. This is the "every accusation is an admission" crowd. Your sister in law who is obsessed with calling people out as thieves, who will swipe cash off your night stand without hesitation. Your "gays will burn in hell" preachers that get caught soliciting male prostitutes. Your "trans people are groomers" politicians who get arrested for CSAM. Whether it is shame over their desires that makes them genuinely angry or an attempt at subterfuge by going over the top against it so they don't get in trouble, they are obsessed with the subject to the point that they either bring it up all the time or they shoehorn it in seemingly out of nowhere.

So any time I see someone like Elon, who has absolutely nothing to go on but a white guy existing in Thailand and children being involved, immediately come to the association of pedophilia... well he's not a sex crimes cop or journalist is he? It makes me feel very confident that either he was a victim of child sex abuse, or someone who might be a perpetrator of it, or both (as is unfortunately very common). Pair that with his later revealed desires to go to Epstein's island, and, frankly, what I would perceive as a halting in his maturation from adolescence (genuinely think he has Peter Pan syndrome) which can be caused by childhood trauma, I really wonder if it is both.

[–] Armpitbagette@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

Remember when he bought Twitter and unbanned all those accounts that posted kiddie stuff? It sure looked like he was just trying to get himself continued access to content

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[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 55 points 1 day ago

LMAO even the shit that's programmed to be his only friend wants him dead.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

There used to be code in Grok that disallowed people from saying anything mean about Elon. Interesting.

But he is in the Epstein Files and we know he visited the island, so it's not unlikely.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

I once talked to a bunch of different AIs describing bigoted behavior, then asked if Musk doing this exact behavior (with sources) made him a bigot and they all said yes.

Except Grok.

It tried to twist its way out of ever admitting it. It eventually did, but it was pretty wild how it would condem the behavior as bigoted in all situations but his.

[–] rue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 71 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Did no one read more than the headlines? It was just grok vomitting out twitter user bios.

MechaHitler hasn’t become the hero, it’s just become Bobby Tables.

[–] leMe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago

thanks for reading the article. i tend to avoid musk or trump news

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

That's what generative AI does

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[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 79 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In my head canon, he's a pedo but rendered essentially harmless because he is so socially inept that he can't seal the deal.

I mean christ, he has all the money in the world, and the boys on Money Guys Rape Kids For Money Island wouldn't take his fucking money. Imagine what an awful presence you must have if those creeps, who hang out with literal scum, can't stomach being around you.

[–] jaygray91@piefed.zip 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It will never not be morbidly funny time that the creepy fucked up rich people pedophile ring did not want Elon Mush around.

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As was the implied wish of the original poster who if I recall correctly said that this is not shared enough, I give you this:

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[–] Rothe@piefed.social 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He did attend Epstein parties though. We know that already from the few released files, he just had to beg to do it, but he did succeed with his begging.

People seem to have fixated entirely on the begging mail, and forgotten the subsequent mails which shows that he is indeed a pedo who attended pedo parties on pedo island.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 153 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Does anyone get anything from "AI says" articles?

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 111 points 1 day ago

We get something from this one because it's his AI that he is constantly tweaking by training it on himself.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 64 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Random number generator spit out 420 right after 69. Best day ever.

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[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago

IMO this isn't really meant an informative article, it's more of a "Laugh as rich losers' own chatbot turns on him". You have a laugh at Mush's expense and then move on.

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[–] notannpc@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago

I mean, he asked the child sex trafficker to let him visit rape island…

Call it a prompt injection bug, but that doesn’t mean the statement isn’t true.

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