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Elon Musk's artificial intelligence start-up xAI says it is working to remove "inappropriate" posts made by its chatbot, Grok, after users shared how it made positive references to Hitler.

Screenshots published on social media show the chatbot saying the Nazi leader would be the best person to respond to alleged "anti-white hate."

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[-] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 46 points 11 months ago

ADL said the posts were "irresponsible, dangerous and antisemitic."

But not the actual nazi salute? They should give us some guidelines like: nazi speech is bad, and genocide and nazi salute is good.

[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 15 points 11 months ago

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a nonprofit focused on combating antisemitism, defended tech billionaire Elon Musk’s “awkward” gesture during a Monday celebratory event which some critics panned as a fascist salute.

“This is a delicate moment. It’s a new day and yet so many are on edge. Our politics are inflamed, and social media only adds to the anxiety,” the ADL wrote in a Monday post on Musk’s social platform X. “It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge.”

From the Hill if anyone else wanted to know more.

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

"delicate moment" 🥴

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago

Say what you want about Hitler, but at least he killed Hitler.

[-] Aidinthel@reddthat.com 20 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but he also killed the guy who killed Hitler, so it balances out.

[-] First_Thunder@lemmy.zip 5 points 11 months ago

He also killed the guy who killed the guy who killed hitler

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 7 points 11 months ago

Taking the limit of the partial sum of Hitler killings we find that he killed half a Hitler, so he's morally in the black.

[-] Grumpyleb@lemmus.org 20 points 11 months ago

What's the point of pretending or trying to hide it anymore? Their policies are blatant and so is the rhetoric, they might as well own it.

[-] AGuyAcrossTheInternet@fedia.io 3 points 11 months ago

Haha, I almost ate the oni–

What do you mean that's a BBC article?

[-] Philamand@jlai.lu 2 points 11 months ago

Not surprising if the thing was trained on Twitter posts/comments.

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