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

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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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      Thanks for the chuckle, that got me good. I just imagined an old Jewish man groaning “Oy vey…” after starting his car and seeing a greeting message along the lines of “HI! I’m MECHA-Hitler, your new onboard Ai assistant!”

      (It’s a surreal dark-humor chuckle, not an antisemitic chuckle, just to clarify, since this is the internet…)

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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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      8 hours ago

      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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      (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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    Hey Tesl-errr, I mean, Grok.

    Yes, fräulein

    Uh… read me a story

    Certainly

    The function of propaganda does not lie in the scientific training of the individual, but in calling the masses’ attention to certain facts, processes, necessities, etc-

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    6 hours ago

    Calling teslas “Swasticars” and CT’s “”Wankpanzers” was supposed to be a joke.

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    They can run the model locally on the car’s onboard NPU/GPU, so every time the driver asks the car a question, the model can take compute away from the car’s driving software. “Hey, Tesla, why are trees green?” Dashboard goes dark, car drives off road

    Although to be fair, they already do that last part.

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      I was about to say, that might make the car safer on net!

      Less compute means less bandwidth to hallucinate demons in front of you on a totally unobstructed straightaway.

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    So you want Grok, a racist LLM, to have control of vehicles with driverless features. How long until Grok commits a terrorist attack?

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      How long until one does and Trump says “there’s good AIs on both sides”?