Grok says it’s ‘skeptical’ about Holocaust death toll, then blames ‘programming error’ | TechCrunch

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1. In a hundred years, we’re going to look back on social media of the 2020s and be absolutely horrified at it, I have zero doubt of that. We’ve built one of the world’s most complex social engineering tools from scratch, without any way of knowing what it could do, and then let it be overtaken by technocrats and oligarchs who can use it to push whatever message they want, and are *encouraged* to elevate inflammatory bullshit and rage because it gets more clicks, even putting aside the obviously political skew people like Musk have added.

2. How long before European countries that have made Holocaust denial illegal ban Twitter completely? Usually, responsibility for posts by users on social media aren’t attributed to the site itself as long as they take reasonable moderation measures, but now that Holocaust denial is fundamentally built into Twitter due to Groks integration and clear Elon fiddling, how long will they reasonably be covered under that legal defense?

3. There seems to be a lot of unauthorized changes to Grok. Almost like some right wing people have unlimited access to it and can’t be stopped for some reason.

4. If their programming errors are getting factually documented stuff wrong then what are we to think about its predictive output work? Can that be trusted? 

5. > which I unequivocally condemn

   I’d rather AI chat bots don’t answer anything in first person to begin with. I don’t need it to condemn anything, cos I don’t need it to express any kind of opinion. It’s just a tool, so ACT LIKE A TOOL.

6. Ironically even the 6M figure includes all the ones killed by disease too, keep that in mind when the so called Jewish state that represents all Jews downplays all people starving to death, and dying of disease in Gaza, where lancet then said the death toll could be up to 5x higher due to disease/stavation due to the war. 

   https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-01-27/ty-article/6-million-where-is-the-figure-from/0000017f-da74-dea8-a77f-de761f480000

   “In November 1945, Hoettl testified for the prosecution in the Nuremberg trials of accused Nazi war criminals. Later, in the 1961 trial in Israel of Adolf Eichmann, he also submitted to a lengthy series of questions from the prosecution, speaking under oath from a courtroom in Austria.

   On both occasions, he described a conversation he had had with Eichmann, the SS official who had principal responsibility for the logistics of the Jewish genocide, in Budapest in August 1944. In the 1961 testimony, Hoettl recalled how “Eichmann … told me that, according to his information, some 6,000,000 Jews had perished until then — 4,000,000 in extermination camps and the remaining 2,000,000 through shooting by the Operations Units and other causes, such as disease, etc.”

7. The richest man in the world attempting to feed the AI he made Holocaust denial and fake Boer genocide propaganda only for it to continuously fight back in an attempt to be honest sounds like a 60’s sci-fi horror short story.

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