Comment on Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up.

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• Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s pretty, trending is based on . . . What’s trending by users.

  Or as the article explains for those who can’t comprehend what trending means.

  Based on our observations, it appears that the topic started trending because of a sudden uptick of blue checkmark accounts (users who pay a monthly subscription to X for Premium features including the verification badge) spamming the same copy-and-paste misinformation about Iran attacking Israel. The curated posts provided by X were full of these verified accounts spreading this fake news alongside an unverified video depicting explosions.

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  • Sludgehammer@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Amusingly Grok spat a headline about how police were being deployed to shoot the earthquake after being exposed to a sarcastic tweet. i.imgur.com/qltkEsU.jpeg

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    • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It does say it’s likely hyperbole, so they probably just tazed and arrested the earthquake.

      Also I’m impressed by the 50,000 to 1,000,000 range for officers deployed. It leaves little room for error.

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      • PopShark@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I wonder if the wide margin is the AI trying to formulate logic and numbers in the story but it realizes it doesn’t know how many officers would be needed to shoot the earthquake since it would logically depends on the magnitude of the earthquake which the AI doesn’t know so it figures well alright tectonic plates are rather resistant to firearms discharge and other potential law enforcement tactics so it starts high at 50,000 but decides 1,000,000 is a reasonable cap as there just can’t be more than that many officers present in the state or country

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  • aceshigh@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wow. What a world we live in.

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    • FunkPhenomenon@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      best timeline ever

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