Posted by choult 1 day ago
> This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says
It's a creepy voice for any corporation to use for interacting with the public.
Regardless, I was able to understand the title.
Says the media platform run by the lying billionaire.
Despicable.
Edit: For the downvoters who love beating up women I guess: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-new-ai-researcher-...
(ETA: seems maybe so, per e.g. [0]:
> ”The leaked system prompt associated with Gork reveals a scripted persona aligned with the tone of the parody account, often delivering intentionally awkward or abrasive commentary.” )
I’m not up with much in the way of culture these days, but in those circles isn’t “send nudes” kind of a filler tic? Dumb and offensive, but spoken unseriously—like a teenager seeking a rise by blurting out “fuck your mother” or something?
It kind of buries its acknowledgement that the Mom in question had not switched on “kid mode” for her 12-year-old and his 10-year-old sister. That makes it a bit harder for me to fault the chatbot for, well, not behaving toward its user they way it should toward a kid.
[0] https://www.testingcatalog.com/xai-tests-new-gork-voice-with...
I'm not claiming that "this is not a new problem, therefore we should do nothing" -- rather I'm saying the problem is ubiquitous mobile internet. Fixing Grok won't do anything useful.
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Also, holy heck, I didn't realize they put Grok into Teslas. One more reason to never buy this product.