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This time it's not an onion. I love how close this is to the Onion's "Elon Musk's AI turns on him" story from a few days back

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[–] [email protected] 147 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I feel sorry for satire writers in the last decade or so, it must be genuinely difficult to come up with stuff more bizarre than reality.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 month ago

I…worked on this story for a year…and…he just…he generated it out.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I feel bad to exist in this timeline with all the "bizarre stuff,"

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

I now understand how "may you live in interesting times" is such a bad thing.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just feel bad. Just in general. Wake up. Feel bad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't drink so much alcohol at night my friend 😉

[–] Lost_My_Mind 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Ah a fellow day drinker!

[–] pivot_root 107 points 1 month ago

The smackdown from his own AI system, ironically, came soon after Musk touted the system to his followers in a tweet reading “Use Grok for answers that are based on up-to-date info!”

Beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And suddenly billionaires are no longer interested in AI.

[–] seaQueue 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm waiting for the "AI is democrat communism" talking points

[–] cybervseas 25 points 1 month ago

"AI is woke."

[–] bulwark 51 points 1 month ago

"Mirror mirror on the wall, who spreads the most misinformation of all?"

[–] uebquauntbez 40 points 1 month ago (4 children)

So nowadays AI is more intelligent as the usual shareholder and president?

[–] cybervseas 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

CEOs haven't realized they're actually the people that are easiest to replace with AI.

[–] BatrickPateman 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

May sound like a joke to some but there have been studies on this coming to the same conclusion:

https://hbr.org/2024/09/ai-can-mostly-outperform-human-ceos

Same study, but alternate link with more text:

https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/2024/new-research-human-vs-ai-ceos/

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hate Elon Musk as much as the next guy - and all the more now that he has this massive conflict of interest working in his favor and at the American public's expense.

But I will say this for the sake of exercizing critical thinking: everybody is happy to say AI hallucinates when what it says doesn't suit their narrative, and call AI intelligent when it does.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Sure, but if you’re trying to make money off of this technology and it openly starts criticizing you, there isn’t really an explanation where you look good.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

And it is more intelligent than an average voter too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

It didn’t turn on him, it surpassed him

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Et tu, Grok?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does this mean Musks AI will get sued by Trumps DOJ for using the label “misinformation” per Trumps 1A speech?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do whatever you want, but this kind of thinking will get you nowhere. Especially nowadays.

They don't care about even appearing consistent. It doesn't matter anymore, they won. Now they do what they want.

[–] some_designer_dude 3 points 1 month ago

They always did what they want. Now they do it with impunity and the support of more than half the nation behind them.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

User Gary Koepnick asked the AI which person spreads the most information on Twitter/X—and the service did not hesitate in pointing a finger at its creator.

(my emphasis) That’s a terrible typo…

[–] FireWire400 18 points 1 month ago

Seem like "his" AI isn't that bad after all, eh?

Still wouldn't wanna use it but it's something I guess

[–] LordWiggle 13 points 1 month ago

Oh how the turn tables.

[–] T156 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Got a link to the Onion story? Couldn't seem to find it.

[–] kamenlady 5 points 1 month ago

Here's the lemmy post.

It was posted in the Onion community, but the story itself is on isGlitch

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Based robot