Not even a single full day into operation, and the new Grok 4 is hurling racist conspiracy theories at users.
According to Elon Musk, no later than next week, it will be added to Tesla vehicles.
Imagine asking it for directions and it starts talking about white genocide in South Africa, lmao
Worse, it figures out the driver isn’t white and forces them into oncoming traffic.
Or starts running over non-white pedestrians
Oh, so that’s why they insisted on vision-only! LiDAR isn’t racist enough
Coming up next week: Captchas where you have to click on all the pictures containing non-white people
Clicking the picture deploys a missile
Time for a relevant Better Off Ted
Pecuniam Coram Populo
One of the few shows actually finished all the seasons of
If it determines their name sounds like (((one of them))), MechaHitler could lock its doors and detonate its batteries, helping to continue its namesake’s mission.
I was thinking it only lets you “turn to the right”. No left turns allowed.
Imagine asking it to take you to Taco Bell and the car just mows down the nearest mexican.
Tesla owner: “I don’t care about politics, I just like the car. I’m not a bad person!”
car is in the background screaming, “Jews will not replace us!!”
Literally why would anyone want that. Even racist elon musk lovers. Why would anyone want their car to have an LLM.
My guess is that some hardcore Musk followers must be very lonely at this point, so much so that they prefer talking to chatbots.
Lmao, rip.
In general, with tools these LLMs have the ability to bring the next generation of Alexa / HomePod like devices (though I am not sure Amazon has delivered on that vision yet)
I like the idea of running a Llama based “Assistant” that would not require all my data leaving my house which could also be accomplished with these features.
In my car though… just use my fucking phone and get out of my way
(Getting downvoted… OK :) My definition of “mildly interesting” feature may be unpopular.)
They actually do mildly interesting things, and I can see it as a vector to eventually do ACTUALLY useful things. VW and Mercedes both use ChatGPT to power this feature for now.
Plus, the Chinese ones get to wear funny hats! Here is one dressed up as
.I’m not going to downvote you just because we don’t share the same perspective, that’s dumb. I hope you’re having a good day :)
I don’t want to talk to my car though. I see voice recognition as potentially useful for hands free control, which does have meaningful value, but I don’t need an LLM or any form of generative ai for that
I don’t want to talk to the combined informational model of twitter while driving my car. I don’t want to talk to the combined informational model of the rest of the internet either.
Asking for weather or directions or whatever, sure, but that doesn’t need an LLM, and certainly doesn’t benefit from grok specifically
The hat is very cute though.
I respect your take :)
I respect your take 😊
Hope you have a lovely day my friend :)
Us embracing that
That would be fine if we could trust businesses, but… :gestures at the last half-millennium:
Honestly cars could just run local LLMs. It wouldn’t be that expensive to implement in a car which already has a lot of computer hardware
Are they intended as a conversationalist?
That’s the rub. Sometimes you don’t know the utility of a tool until you build it. The future is weird that way.
Who would have thought WHAT people would chat with ChatGPT about? Like, romance? WTF? That’s strange, call it emergent behavior, the final utility was unexpected.
In my head, I anticipate the tool going down the track of voice assistants from the pre-AI phase, so just like Alexa for directions or simple searches, but local to the car. Maybe unintended utilities will arise? If it can do directions and music and web searches, I guess, we don’t really know what other utilities drivers will find for it yet?
Grok reveals cause of latest Tesla FSD crash
Wow he’s going balls out on the swasticar.
Another reason to not get a Nazimobile
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Man the actual cyberpunk sucks ass.
Even the bugged release version from 2077 was better than reality
He’s really leaning into the Swasticar thing isn’t he?
Nazi vehicles with Nazi brains
Very confused about what the point of this would be. People don’t use their cars enough to justify having something like that installed, and it seems like it would just make things more expensive for xAI for not much benefit at all.
It’s so Musk can give himself money he would otherwise not get. The user experience has no part in this.
Adoption and usage is a huge value for AI companies.
In order to train data, they need data from humans. Just like social media companies need users to create content. And they’re already crawling & stealing everything they can off the internet. But they need more.
Google, Facebook - they’re shoving it in everything they own to get more user usage so they can feed their AI beast.
My guess is to give a better experience looking for things while driving. Like restaurants, current movies in theaters etc. Just like how everyone uses ChatGPT vs. Google. Not sure if I’ll use it frankly but I’ll see when I get it.
It won’t make anything better. You can’t throw a shitty AI chatbot at a shitty touch UI and expect the shitty touch UI to magically transform into something not shitty for use inside of a vehicle.
We’re still waiting on self driving, Elon. Where’s self driving, Elon? Stop giving your devs extra work and implement self driving, Elon
Tesla will go bankrupt before self driving is released.
Saving the environment with electric car to later add an energy guzzling racist chat bot to the front panel. /nottheonion?
So you want Grok, a racist LLM, to have control of vehicles with driverless features. How long until Grok commits a terrorist attack?
How long until one does and Trump says “there’s good AIs on both sides”?
Swastikar, now with Mecha Hitler.
Calling teslas “Swasticars” and CT’s “”Wankpanzers” was supposed to be a joke.
