• fireweed@lemmy.world
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    “xAI’s Grok was created based on a philosophy of sort of absolute, radical openness, and it will talk about anything with anyone,” said Mark Daley, chief AI officer at Western University in London, Ont. U of W’s Chief AI Officer Mark Daley poses for a photo Mark Daley, chief AI officer at Western University, says Grok should post warnings to alert people of explicit content. (Hugo Levesque/CBC)

    “[Musk is] a free speech extremist. He wants Grok to be completely open, to have any conversation with anyone. And that’s a principled stance that he’s taken, but it may not be what every consumer is looking for.”

    Musk is only a self-declared free speech extremist, as anyone who knows anything about how he’s handled Xitter and Grok would be quick to point out. Not sure this was a great choice of subject matter expert to interview for this article.

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      Musk HATES free speech. He loves right wing extremism and conspiracy theories and other brain rot like that, but mentioned human rights or what DEI really means and you’ll see how much he really cares about free speech .

      FFS, he reprogrammed that grok multiple times because it was stating too many proven facts that Elmo personally disagrees with

      Can you imagine having a brain implant from his company? I would fucking double dare you to say something that Elmo doesn’t like, he’ll fry your ass

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        He declared that “cis” was a slur and banned Twitter users who used it