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.
Calling teslas “Swasticars” and CT’s “”Wankpanzers” was supposed to be a joke.
Literally why would anyone want that. Even racist elon musk lovers. Why would anyone want their car to have an LLM.
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
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
.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
That would be fine if we could trust businesses, but… :gestures at the last half-millennium:
Honestly cars could just run local LLMs. It wouldn’t be that expensive to implement in a car which already has a lot of computer hardware
Yeah but frankly I still wouldn’t trust it
Are they intended as a conversationalist?
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?
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.
Imagine asking it for directions and it starts talking about white genocide in South Africa, lmao
Worse, it figures out the driver isn’t white and forces them into oncoming traffic.
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.
Or starts running over non-white pedestrians
Oh, so that’s why they insisted on vision-only! LiDAR isn’t racist enough
Coming up next week: Captchas where you have to click on all the pictures containing non-white people
Clicking the picture deploys a missile
Time for a relevant Better Off Ted
Pecuniam Coram Populo
One of the few shows actually finished all the seasons of
Imagine asking it to take you to Taco Bell and the car just mows down the nearest mexican.
I was thinking it only lets you “turn to the right”. No left turns allowed.
Well what if I’m asking for directions on how to white genocide South Africa you ever think of that
We’re still waiting on self driving, Elon. Where’s self driving, Elon? Stop giving your devs extra work and implement self driving, Elon
Tesla will go bankrupt before self driving is released.
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!!”
He’s really leaning into the Swasticar thing isn’t he?
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
“Grok is now ready” - Musk
This is what Musk mutters to himself when on the porcelain throne.
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.
At some point Grok is going to take over the driving and just start running over minorities. Mark my words
Cars?
Oh, you mean nazi buckets?
Man the actual cyberpunk sucks ass.
Even the bugged release version from 2077 was better than reality
sucking ass is the essence of cyberpunk 🤌
So you want Grok, a racist LLM, to have control of vehicles with driverless features. How long until Grok commits a terrorist attack?
How long until one does and Trump says “there’s good AIs on both sides”?
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.
Another reason to not get a Nazimobile
