Given his politics and heritage, I would assume he thinks this claim is true. But the rogue actor hacked Grok to make it say the claim is false.
(Man, I'd blocked him years ago. I hadn't realised how bad it'd gotten.)
This is the sort of outcome you'd expect from someone who had high level access including the ability to inject prompts but lacked the time and attention to detail to validate the actual results. Elon certainly isn't the only person that could match this description, but frankly it's not unlike him and how he reacts to things on social media...
It's totally fine if AI spreads right-wing conspiracy theories and propaganda, that's just... what are they calling it now... " maximal truth-seeking."
If you think about it, it makes a lot sense. Our human to human communications are actually rather rudimentary, we can't transfer much information. Instead, we all create a model of others based on our own ideas and experiences and whatever we think others are doing it is based on our own ideas.
Nobody is surprised when it turns out gatherings of powerful people are nests of corruption and malevolence. Eg, if I talk about the "bone saw incident" it isn't ambiguous who I mean - but the major actors are still welcome in polite society. That is the quality of person we're dealing with in positions of power - slightly extreme example, but still acceptable by global standards.
I didn't predict that it'd be injecting ideology instead of brand names because that seemed way too lame, but that's my blindspot I guess.
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Context matters.
Given that Xitter is still a fairly widely-used social network platform, and Grok is supposed to be a major part of its defense against misinformation, including misinformation about things like domestic elections and corruption, I would say that it very reasonably qualifies as such. (Granted, to a large extent that horse has left the barn—but that doesn't mean we should just burn down the barn.)
And to me that's a completely different concern than trying to limit another country's access to hardware for training large models, for example.
That is very different than the foundational technology falling into the hands of foreign actors.
> Wouldn't you want an inquery into their security procedures?
No more than I want an inquiry into SpaceX or Tesla, since X and XAi are not the same company.