Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting

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• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The AI chatbot has repeatedly misidentified 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who heroically disarmed one of the shooters, and claimed the verified video of his deed was something else entirely — including that it was an old viral video of a man climbing a tree.

  In the aftermath of the attack, Ahmed has been widely praised for his heroism, but some have tried to dismiss or even deny his actions. Someone even quickly whipped up a fake news site that appears to be AI-generated, with an article naming a fictitious IT professional, Edward Crabtree, as the man who disarmed the attacker. This, of course, got picked up by Grok and regurgitated on X.

  But Grok also suggested that images of Ahmed were of an Israeli being held hostage by Hamas. And it claimed that video taken at the scene was actually of Currumbin Beach, Australia, during Cyclone Alfred.

  It’s hallucinating, but in MAGA 🤣

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  • kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s working as intended.

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    • SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      MechaHitler

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  • conorab@lemmy.conorab.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Surely at some point this would run foul of defamation laws (Australia’s ones can be brutal under the right circumstances). I kinda get wanting to let AIs have a bit of leniency by you then hit the obvious problem of people just hiding behind AIs when they want to make a defamatory claim or just don’t care about being accurate and then blame the AI. Especially with claims like this which if spread, can cause serious reputational harm or even death.

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    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not within the USA. I don’t know the exact details, but basically all regulation of AI-related stuff is suspended for 10 years or so.
      By then they will be the dominating force.
      And then they cry about the EU trying to enforce their own laws.

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• vas@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Grok this grok that…
  I’m sorry, but ***k grok. Stop posting about it.

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  • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can say “fuck” on the internet.

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    • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Is that true!?

      …

      …

      ^fuck^

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    • butwhyishischinabook@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not in ml you can’t lol. Bootlicking is hard work.

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  • andallthat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ***k

    Hey, how do you know my password?

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    • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      groak is your password too?

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• OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting

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  • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And shit stinks. Now here’s Tom with the weather

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• myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The same grok owned by the racist, bigoted Nazi? That grok?

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• Harvey656@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The lying machine lied, color me surprised.

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• WanderWisley@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Grok spreading lies and misinformation? Couldn’t be…

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• ThisGuyThat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I would not mind more sites feeding bad data to LLM’s.

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  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i.e. to make it useless?

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• melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Who freakin’ cares? I still get my news from various human sources. Is there anyone out there screaming “Grok! Save us!”.

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• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Chill bro grok was just trolling…

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• falseWhite@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Paywall :(

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