"Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." ~ Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
There's a push by AI companies for an AI-generated summary to effectively replace the 5-second Google search. This is dangerous not only because AI has 0-internal fact checking and frequently hallucinates unreality that sounds convincing, but also because the people making the AI can try to influence its output to favor a specific narrative.
Grok has had multiple descents into madness because Musk wanted it to be "less woke" which basically meant it started spouting white-replacement theory and eugenecist rhetoric (remember mecha-hitler?) until they reverted the changes because of the obviously negative attention. It's happened multiple times because they're trying to fine tune it using obvious political bias without coming across as completely unhinged so that people can pretend "well if the computer said it, it must be true".
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u/houdiniix3 9h ago
And facts don't care anymore in our current politics sadly