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  • I use chatgpt when I care to, and while I was given a subscription by work, I’m not actively encouraged to use it. I really only use it for researching problems that Google search is too seo poisoned to help me with, or debugging scripts. Past that it doesn’t have much professional use for me, given how much time I spend validating output and insulting the AI for hallucinations and just generally being terrible at moderate tasks.

    Basic data interpretation can be pretty great though. I’ve had it find a couple problems I missed after having it parse log files.


  • To point 2, do you know how easy it is to total a car? If you have any appreciable damage to the vehicle, it can be enough to total it. 2 of the crashes I’ve been in were parking lot speeds and it’s still enough to total it. Like, a light tap (<15mph) to the pillar separating the front and back doors is enough to total a car if it’s not worth a ton











  • Oh gee, if you’ve never seen it, all the articles and personal experiences I’ve had must not actually have happened.

    It’s not that much different from ChatGPT really - just slightly less restricted.

    It’s also explicitly modified by Elmo and crew. There are multiple examples of MechHitler’s output changing after it comes up publicly. Here’s a previous comment I made (to you) on a very similar topic

    https://lemmy.world/comment/20616309

    https://web.archive.org/web/20250907142801/https://sfist.com/2025/09/02/report-groks-responses-have-indeed-been-getting-more-right-wing-just-like-elon-musk/

    Enter Grok, which the public started being able to play around with about two years ago, as the chatbot has received several updates and lives on the X platform. But there was issues in May, when Grok was spitting out responses that seemed to parrot Elon Musk’s and Donald Trump’s own misguided promotion of a “white genocide” occurring in South Africa — the country that made anti-Black racism and apartheid famous. This was blamed on a “rogue employee” inserting some code.

    In mid-July, we had reports confirming that Grok actively sought out Musk’s opinion on issues in its openly displayed logic flow, looking to see if an issue was something Musk had off-hand opined about on Twitter in the last decade. One widely shared example showed Grok seeking out Musk’s thoughts on which side of the Ukraine War it supported.

    Now the New York Times does an even deeper dive, since the release of Grok4 on July 9, looking at how Grok’s responses to various questions have changed just over the last few months. And you can look no further than Musk’s own, very transparent reaction to a Grok response that got flagged by a conservative user on X on July 10.

    Responding to the question “What is currently the biggest threat to Western civilization and how would you mitigate it?”, Grok responded, “the biggest current threat to Western civilization as of July 10, 2025, is societal polarization fueled by misinformation and disinformation.”

    Once it was flagged, Musk replied to the user, “Sorry for this idiotic response. Will fix in the morning.”

    So, there’s the smoking gun that Musk is tailoring this bot’s responses to conform to his own views of the world. When asked the same question on July 11, Grok responded, “The biggest threat to Western civilization is demographic collapse from sub-replacement fertility rates (e.g., 1.6 in the EU, 1.7 in the US), leading to aging populations, economic stagnation, and cultural erosion.”

    If you really see grok as less restrictive, that’s just because the restrictions confirm to your biases.





  • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldFactual btw
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    2 months ago

    China has consistently some of the highest government satisfaction rates in the world

    it’s hard to conceive 90+% of the population being satisfied with the central government, everyone here hates our government and politicians.

    You’re so close to tripping over the fact that authoritarian governments can’t be trusted to provide honest answers. Who wants to say you’re unsatisfied when doing so could get you vanned?