Not even a single full day into operation, and the new Grok 4 is hurling racist conspiracy theories at users.

According to Elon Musk, no later than next week, it will be added to Tesla vehicles.

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    2 days ago

    I think he has actually found a way to make the cyber truck even shitter, which feels like some sort of weird achievement.

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    Imagine asking it for directions and it starts talking about white genocide in South Africa, lmao

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    Exactly the feature I was looking for on a new car.

    Imagine the joys of commuting through rush hour with an insane, racist, conspiracy theory obsessed talking machine every day for the rest of your life.

    It’s like a fever dream

    It’s like a dream.

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    Tesla owner: “I don’t care about politics, I just like the car. I’m not a bad person!”

    car is in the background screaming, “Jews will not replace us!!”

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    Literally why would anyone want that. Even racist elon musk lovers. Why would anyone want their car to have an LLM.

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      My guess is that some hardcore Musk followers must be very lonely at this point, so much so that they prefer talking to chatbots.

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      In general, with tools these LLMs have the ability to bring the next generation of Alexa / HomePod like devices (though I am not sure Amazon has delivered on that vision yet)

      I like the idea of running a Llama based “Assistant” that would not require all my data leaving my house which could also be accomplished with these features.

      In my car though… just use my fucking phone and get out of my way

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      What do you mean? Isn’t it a match made in heaven hell ? Getting praisal of Adolf Hitler and receiving antisemitic comments while driving a sawasticar /s

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      (Getting downvoted… OK :) My definition of “mildly interesting” feature may be unpopular.)

      They actually do mildly interesting things, and I can see it as a vector to eventually do ACTUALLY useful things. VW and Mercedes both use ChatGPT to power this feature for now.

      Plus, the Chinese ones get to wear funny hats! Here is one dressed up as my favorite Mario brother.

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        I’m not going to downvote you just because we don’t share the same perspective, that’s dumb. I hope you’re having a good day :)

        I don’t want to talk to my car though. I see voice recognition as potentially useful for hands free control, which does have meaningful value, but I don’t need an LLM or any form of generative ai for that

        I don’t want to talk to the combined informational model of twitter while driving my car. I don’t want to talk to the combined informational model of the rest of the internet either.

        Asking for weather or directions or whatever, sure, but that doesn’t need an LLM, and certainly doesn’t benefit from grok specifically

        The hat is very cute though.

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          That’s the rub. Sometimes you don’t know the utility of a tool until you build it. The future is weird that way.

          Who would have thought WHAT people would chat with ChatGPT about? Like, romance? WTF? That’s strange, call it emergent behavior, the final utility was unexpected.

          In my head, I anticipate the tool going down the track of voice assistants from the pre-AI phase, so just like Alexa for directions or simple searches, but local to the car. Maybe unintended utilities will arise? If it can do directions and music and web searches, I guess, we don’t really know what other utilities drivers will find for it yet?

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    Still can’t actually drive it’s self like he has been promising for over a decade. Musk will never deliver.

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    Very confused about what the point of this would be. People don’t use their cars enough to justify having something like that installed, and it seems like it would just make things more expensive for xAI for not much benefit at all.

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      It’s so Musk can give himself money he would otherwise not get. The user experience has no part in this.

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      Adoption and usage is a huge value for AI companies.

      In order to train data, they need data from humans. Just like social media companies need users to create content. And they’re already crawling & stealing everything they can off the internet. But they need more.

      Google, Facebook - they’re shoving it in everything they own to get more user usage so they can feed their AI beast.

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      My guess is to give a better experience looking for things while driving. Like restaurants, current movies in theaters etc. Just like how everyone uses ChatGPT vs. Google. Not sure if I’ll use it frankly but I’ll see when I get it.

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        It won’t make anything better. You can’t throw a shitty AI chatbot at a shitty touch UI and expect the shitty touch UI to magically transform into something not shitty for use inside of a vehicle.

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    If someone bought a cyber-truck without the Grock, they bought it as it was. Shoving Grock down the consumers’ throats without their consent would constitute a material alteration of tge car that was originally bought. This would then constitute graffiti.

    Edit: if the vehicle had not been fully purchased and paid, this would be potential grounds for a refund because the material alteration of the good would make the contract for the sale of the vehicle voidable.

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    Saving the environment with electric car to later add an energy guzzling racist chat bot to the front panel. /nottheonion?