Elon Musk’s Grok keeps making up fake news based on X users’ jokes

istanbullu , 2 months ago

I don’t understand why people act suprised about this. These models mimic the data they are trained on. Of course they behave in this way.

If you train a language model on Twitter data, then you will get a model that sounds like a Twitter user.

DontMakeMoreBabies , 2 months ago

Curious what sort of prompt they fed it.

db2 , 2 months ago

“Imitate 3% of Elon Musk’s insanity.”

Hiko0 , 2 months ago

Just like him. It‘s a match made in heaven hell.

tsonfeir , 2 months ago

wtf is grok?

ObviouslyNotBanana , 2 months ago

It’s ChatGPT but apparently entirely about X jokes? Lol

Interstellar_1 , 2 months ago

It’s X’s integrated ChatGPT AI

coffeebiscuit , 2 months ago

Elons version of being artificially smart.

magnetosphere , 2 months ago

I had never heard of it either, but once I learned Musk was involved, the section title “Grok ranks among most reckless chatbots” made perfect sense.

db2 , 2 months ago

It’s Elon being an unoriginal turd again.

manpages.org/grok

Dearth , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Grok is an old ttrpg term that means “to intuitively understand something.” As in “I totally grok how to play as an elf in ad&d but playing as a wizard is totally over my head”

edit: correct the autocorrect

surewhynotlem , 2 months ago

“to really understand something”

tsonfeir , 2 months ago

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok

Eldritch , 2 months ago

It’s also an old Log parser and search function for Linux/unix. So it’s logical he would steal it like he stole the xorg iconography.

clay_pidgin , 2 months ago

It comes from the Robert Heinlein sci-fi novel Stranger in a Strange Land. It was defined as fully understanding something. It was used later by nerds in other contexts, as your other replies show.