Levka<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/chatbots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chatbots</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grok</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a></p><p>"How Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok could be helping bring about an era of techno-fascism</p><p>(. . .)</p><p>Like its creator, Grok is characterized by dark humour and a rebellious streak, openly displaying contempt for social norms and taboos. The first major problem is its propensity to spread fake news, especially through its integration into the social media platform X, also owned by Musk. Like other generative AIs, Grok suffers from bias, hallucinations and inaccuracies.</p><p>But the absence of ethical and factual guidelines in this “censorship-free” conversational robot can produce absurd results, such as realistic images of Musk and Mickey Mouse killing children or promoting the narrative of white genocide in South Africa.</p><p>The idea of anti-woke AI also dramatically amplifies misinformation in the name of freedom of expression, with no attached responsibility to correct it.</p><p>A second problem arises when the richest man in the world rallies behind Donald Trump’s second administration.</p><p>Musk’s high-profile involvement in Trump’s presidential campaign, his adherence to the reactionary ideology of Dark MAGA, his apparent Nazi salute on Jan. 20 and his support for the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) all testify to his shift to the far right of the political spectrum.<br>(. . .)</p><p>A third problem arises when the interests of the private and public sectors converge to an extent that can be described as collusion or even corruption. Musk was hired as a special employee of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to make massive cuts in the federal administration. But his own companies — Tesla, SpaceX and Neuralink — have racked up more than US$2.37 billion in federal contracts."</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/how-elon-musks-chatbot-grok-could-be-helping-bring-about-an-era-of-techno-fascism-261449" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/how-elon-m</span><span class="invisible">usks-chatbot-grok-could-be-helping-bring-about-an-era-of-techno-fascism-261449</span></a></p>