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.
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!!”
“Grok is now ready” - Musk
This is what Musk mutters to himself when on the porcelain throne.
Your car’s AI will be telling you to drive off a bridge next.
Telling you?
It’s going to do the driving for you…
I am old and have an old vehicle. Forgot about the self driving stuff for a minute.
Imagine asking it for directions and it starts talking about white genocide in South Africa, lmao
I was thinking it only lets you “turn to the right”. No left turns allowed.
Worse, it figures out the driver isn’t white and forces them into oncoming traffic.
Or starts running over non-white pedestrians
If it determines their name sounds like (((one of them))), MechaHitler could lock its doors and detonate its batteries, helping to continue its namesake’s mission.
Well what if I’m asking for directions on how to white genocide South Africa you ever think of that
Man the actual cyberpunk sucks ass.
sucking ass is the essence of cyberpunk 🤌
Even the bugged release version from 2077 was better than reality
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.
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.
Calling teslas “Swasticars” and CT’s “”Wankpanzers” was supposed to be a joke.
Remember this is the same guy that has increased the price on vehicles people didn’t yet receive but already paid for. He asked people to pay more for already purchased vehicles they have not received.
Literally why would anyone want that. Even racist elon musk lovers. Why would anyone want their car to have an LLM.
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
.That would be fine if we could trust businesses, but… :gestures at the last half-millennium:
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
I respect your take :)
I respect your take 😊
Hope you have a lovely day my friend :)
Us embracing that
Lol 😊
The pic doesnt seem to work for me, but I can see the caption
My guess is that some hardcore Musk followers must be very lonely at this point, so much so that they prefer talking to chatbots.
Lmao, rip.
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
Bad day to be a jewish Telsa driver.
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…)
Don’t worry, on the internet you’re only antisemitic if you oppose the genocide in Gaza.
/s
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-
Wow he’s going balls out on the swasticar.
Grok reveals cause of latest Tesla FSD crash
Nazi vehicles with Nazi brains
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.
It’s so Musk can give himself money he would otherwise not get. The user experience has no part in this.
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.
Found the swasticar driver…
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.
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.
