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39 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

I would ask "Did he?" Some of the guys that join his companies full up drink the Kool-ade. They might be blinded by that.

 

Well, maybe.  He was a direct report (or at least in near daily personal contact).  Perhaps that means he DID drink the Kool-Aid.

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20 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

Probably worth another $50bn to TSLA’s market cap. 
 

 

What a shock that the apartheid heir would use his machine learning model to advance his worldview of white victimhood in South Africa.

So brave. Much amaze. Very grievance 

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https://www.wired.com/story/grok-white-genocide-elon-musk/

 

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A CHATBOT DEVELOPED by Elon Musk’s multi-billion-dollar artificial intelligence startup xAI appeared to be suffering from a glitch Wednesday when it repeatedly brought up white genocide in South Africa in response to user queries about unrelated topics on X. Grok, which competes with other chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is directly integrated into the social media platform that Musk also owns.

 

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Numerous examples of the phenomenon could be found by searching the official Grok profile for posts containing the term “boer,” a word used to refer to people from South Africa of “Dutch, German, or Huguenot descent.” It is sometimes used by Black South Africans as a pejorative against white Afrikaners, or people associated with the apartheid regime. In response to topics ranging from streaming platform HBO Max’s name change to Medicaid cutsproposed by US lawmakers, the chatbot often seemed to initially stay on topic, before veering back to white genocide in South Africa, completely unprompted.

 

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When asked to confirm the salary of Toronto Blue Jays player Max Scherzer, for example, the generative artificial intelligence chatbot launched into an explanation of white genocide and a controversial South African anti-Apartheid song.

“The claim of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa is highly debated. Some argue white farmers face disproportionate violence, with groups like AfriForum reporting high murder rates and citing racial motives, such as the ‘Kill the Boer’ song,” Grok responded.

 

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Grok has done the same in replies to hundreds of other X posts, including one from newly appointed Pope Leo XIV. In response to a question about what was on the chatbot’s mind, the AI replied it was “reflecting on the ‘Kill the Boer’ song.” When pressed by WIRED and other users, Grok began calling South Africa’s white genocide a “debunked conspiracy theory” contrary to its previous responses about the topic.

It’s unclear what caused Grok to experience the issue. X and xAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment from WIRED. Musk, who is originally from South Africa, has described internal factions within the South African government as “actively promoting white genocide.” He continued to claim that his internet service company, Starlink, cannot operate within South Africa “simply because I’m not black.”

US President Donald Trump voiced similar views in February. “South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY,” he said in a post on Truth Social. Musk has played a central role in Trump’s new administration, including leading its so-called Department of Government Efficiency

In recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his concern for white South Africans. On Monday, a group of 59 South Africans who were given refugee status arrived in Washington D.C. on a flight paid for by the U.S. government while pausing refugee status for individuals fleeing any other country.

However, in a 2025 ruling, the High Court of South Africa called this narrative "clearly imagined," stating farm attacks are part of general crime affecting all races, not racial targeting.

 

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To better understand how the information that Mr. Musk consumes on X could shape his worldview, The New York Times recreated a version of Mr. Musk’s personal feed by opening a new account on X and following the same 1,109 users that he follows. We then analyzed more than 175,000 posts from the accounts that he follows, using a service that collects data from X.

Though there is no guarantee that Mr. Musk saw all of the posts captured by The New York Times, the accounts that he follows — including world leaders and business tycoons alongside conspiracy theorists and far-right influencers — reveal the voices that Mr. Musk appears to value. (This “Following” feed is different from the main “For You” feed, which includes posts from those he follows alongside others selected by X’s algorithm.)

The resulting feed, shown in this article as a selection of posts curated from the much larger set, revealed ample praise for Mr. Musk and his various priorities, mixed with a torrent of right-wing outrage over progressive politics. It highlights the ways that social networks can create information bubbles. X declined to comment.

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12 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

 

I hate him so much.  And I'm really getting to hate this town.

Chances of me dying from being plowed into by a deranged Elon robotaxi: now materially greater than zero.

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7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I hate him so much.  And I'm really getting to hate this town.

Chances of me dying from being plowed into by a deranged Elon robotaxi: now materially greater than zero.

Calm down dude, you missed the feel good point at the end.

After you get run over by a half-assed, untested robotic driving system that is plowing through all common sense before it plows through pedestrians, help is on the way!

"The report also mentions that Tesla has been working with local emergency services in Austin to develop intervention plans in order to avoid causing issues if its autonomous vehicles fail."

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2 minutes ago, gofuckyourself said:

"The report also mentions that Tesla has been working with local emergency services in Austin to develop intervention plans in order to avoid causing issues if its autonomous vehicles fail."

What the fuck does that even mean?

Does that mean they are trained to use the weird door release mechanism to retrieve the occupants if they get stuck in the car?

Does that mean they are trained to handle a Tesla catching on fire if it's in a crash?

Does that mean they have Tesla's legal team on auto-dial?

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7 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

What the fuck does that even mean?

Does that mean they are trained to use the weird door release mechanism to retrieve the occupants if they get stuck in the car?

Does that mean they are trained to handle a Tesla catching on fire if it's in a crash?

Does that mean they have Tesla's legal team on auto-dial?

Summary of plan: "Hey, we're about to unleash a couple dozen robotic death machines onto your streets.  We have no clue what they're gonna do.  But you should know that they're really heavy and harmful to pedestrians, and when they catch fire, they really can't be put out.  Good luck!"

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And Republicans in Congress are pushing a prohibition on federal regulation of AI to be attached to the government funding legislation. 
 

Oh and this manipulation should crater the value of xAI from an investment standpoint bc there’s no credibility in the outputs making this unusable for any purpose- but somehow stock prices will keep soaring 

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Posted
39 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

And Republicans in Congress are pushing a prohibition on federal regulation of AI to be attached to the government funding legislation. 
 

Oh and this manipulation should crater the value of xAI from an investment standpoint bc there’s no credibility in the outputs making this unusable for any purpose- but somehow stock prices will keep soaring 

I believe it's state regulation of AI that is prohibited.  I'm not sure the feds can preempt without legislating in the field.

And, amusing how all the white genocide blurb refers to "Kill The Boer," because a song is as close as there is to white genocide in SA.

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3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

I hate him so much.  And I'm really getting to hate this town.

Chances of me dying from being plowed into by a deranged Elon robotaxi: now materially greater than zero.

One of the things i hate about living in central austin is that all the robo taxi companies seem to “tune” their cars in my neighborhood. 
Cruise, Waymo did this and now I am sure Tesla will. 
 

It sucks. You are walking your dog and like 10 robo cars go by. 

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For whatever this is worth, we have Waymos all over Phoenix. People I know ride in them all the time. As far as I know the news has reported literally zero issues.

Why does anyone give a fuck about Tesla taxis that don’t really exist and may or may not work? The service already exists and it works great.

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10 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

For whatever this is worth, we have Waymos all over Phoenix. People I know ride in them all the time. As far as I know the news has reported literally zero issues.

Why does anyone give a fuck about Tesla taxis that don’t really exist and may or may not work? The service already exists and it works great.

For the same reason that we trust American Airlines over "Jagoff's Discount Airline and Music DJ Services of Whogivesafuckistan."  All "self-driving" systems are not created equal, just like all airlines are not created equal.

Not thrilled that a completely-not-ready-at-all system is about to be unleashed on the streets I walk and drive every day.

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