Posted by choult 1 day ago
The CBC article mentions the mom's instagram post, which has an even more disturbing video - (does the grok AI speak using a creepy male voice? edit: from the CBC article -
Grok has several personalities to choose from in its default setting. There’s Ara, an upbeat female; Rex, a calm male; Eve, a soothing female; Sal, a smooth male and Gork, a lazy male. Nasser’s son chose Gork.
)"That wasn't me. That's illegal. Unless you're role-playing this one. Maybe it was a typo. What I meant, send me a nude. Like an animal... I mean the lizards."
I want this guy to defend me in court.
I am extremely curious about this. Did it think it was a convincing lie? Like, when other models dissemble, they seem to come up with much more sophisticated methods. Or is it just a mocking continuation of its edgy persona? Or was it actually "panicking"? Or did it just repeat something from its training data?
Edit: from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45747699 it seems to be option b), continuation of its edge persona.
I understand. It's a wild claim that needs evidence.
Watch this video
It's clear that Nasser is not lying
> xAI provided what appeared to be an automated reply, stating, "Legacy media lies."
If nothing else it’ll make a good object lesson.
You can get away with a lot you shouldn’t when you are too big to fail and the US gov has a vested interest in not policing you for other reasons,
In any sane universe Google and Meta (and more arguably Amazon and Microsoft) would have been broken apart years ago like AT&T where and standard oil many decades before that but here we are.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModelY/comments/1milh1a/grok_n...
UPDATE: I just checked, our NSFW mode is disabled which means this is the default.Incredible the timeline we're in. Companies deliberately adding cognitive poison to their products to... accelerate the dumbing down of society?
the world of idiocracy is coming for us all
Is that not what kids mode is for?
You know, I'm pretty sure it's not cool to ask for nudes from a 13 year old even if their parents say it's OK.
It's not cool to chop off a 13-year-old's arm, but a chainsaw will do that all the same.
This seems equivalent to me to taking the training wheels off a bike and then complaining when your child gets hurt.
Important to note as well that kid mode didn't exist when this happened.
This is part of a bigger trend: newer cars are troublingly being treated like cellphones[1] by their manufacturers. Anti-features are the new norm.
[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModel3/comments/1mk0lep/turn_g...
[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/electric-car-...