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A shocking story was promoted on the "front page" or main feed of Elon Musk's X on Thursday:

"Iran Strikes Tel Aviv with Heavy Missiles," read the headline.

This would certainly be a worrying world news development. Earlier that week, Israel had conducted an airstrike on Iran's embassy in Syria, killing two generals as well as other officers. Retaliation from Iran seemed like a plausible occurrence.

But, there was one major problem: Iran did not attack Israel. The headline was fake.

Even more concerning, the fake headline was apparently generated by X's own official AI chatbot, Grok, and then promoted by X's trending news product, Explore, on the very first day of an updated version of the feature.

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[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 6 points 7 months ago

but it is also literally and technologically impossible for that to spontaneously coelesce into reason/logic/sentience

Yeah, see, one very popular modern religion (without official status or need for one to explicitly identify with id, but really influential) is exactly about "a wonderful invention" spontaneously emerging in the hands of some "genius" who "thinks differently".

Most people put this idea far above reaching your goal after making myriad of small steps, not skipping a single one.

They also want a magic wand.

The fans of "AI" today are deep inside simply luddites. They want some new magic to emerge to destroy the magic they fear.

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