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.
Swastikar, now with Mecha Hitler.
Imagine asking it for directions and it starts talking about white genocide in South Africa, lmao
I think he has actually found a way to make the cyber truck even shitter, which feels like some sort of weird achievement.
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…
Way to go Sherlock. You cracked the case.
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.
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
Good thing no one knows I’m secretly a dog
Literally why would anyone want that. Even racist elon musk lovers. Why would anyone want their car to have an LLM.
(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
.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?
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
