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.
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.
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
I was thinking it only lets you “turn to the right”. No left turns allowed.
Imagine asking it to take you to Taco Bell and the car just mows down the nearest mexican.
Well what if I’m asking for directions on how to white genocide South Africa you ever think of that
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!!”
Literally why would anyone want that. Even racist elon musk lovers. Why would anyone want their car to have an LLM.
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
What do you mean? Isn’t it a match made in
heavenhell ? Getting praisal of Adolf Hitler and receiving antisemitic comments while driving a sawasticar /s(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
.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.
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:
Another reason to not get a Nazimobile
Swastikar, now with Mecha Hitler.
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.
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.
Shitty touch UI? I see you’ve never used one before. The response is amazing.
Found the swasticar driver…
Way to go Sherlock. You cracked the case.
He’s really leaning into the Swasticar thing isn’t he?
Oh and I hope Tesla stocks go down even more!
when getting blasted with fascist remarks on your daily commute is becoming the norm, we as a society should start asking questions.
I miss the days of good AM radio too. Also good FM radio. Ham radio never goes bad.
Exactly the feature I was looking for on a new car.
Imagine the joys of commuting through rush hour with an insane, racist, conspiracy theory obsessed talking machine every day for the rest of your life.
It’s like a fever dream
It’s like a dream.
Every day I am so glad that 8 years ago I decided not to buy a Tesla.
Still can’t actually drive it’s self like he has been promising for over a decade. Musk will never deliver.
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.
Nazi vehicles with Nazi brains
Calling teslas “Swasticars” and CT’s “”Wankpanzers” was supposed to be a joke.
