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Grok reminds everyone that AI is made by people.

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The Guardian is reporting that Elon Musk’s Grok AI tells users he is fitter than LeBron James and smarter than Leonardo da Vinci.

From the story:

Musk was also funnier than Jerry Seinfeld, according to Grok, and he would have risen from the dead faster than Jesus.

Many of the Grok responses were quietly deleted on Friday, and Musk posted that Grok had been “unfortunately manipulated by adversarial prompting into saying absurdly positive things about me”.

Now, it was be very easy to dunk on Musk here. Absolutely, impossibly easy.

But that’s not the point. The point is that we are being reminded in the most obvious way that AI — all AI — is made by people with agendas.

We need to keep this in mind. It’s untrustworthy; more so, it’s unpredictably untrustworthy.

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