I didn’t mean that they never called it a “chatbot”, but that they treat it like a regular meatbag source, more or less.

But yeah, maybe take a break, you’ve clearly decided to be ANGY about this for some reason.

That’s… reassuring.

This reminds me of that scene from Fight Club:

“Which bank do you work for?”

“A major one”

Right, which just calls into question how “anti-woke” it is. Does that count as a critical approach to LLM outputs to you?

I’m not saying this just based on the headline: it’s not like the article itself displays anything that I’d consider a critical approach to LLMs. Just because I don’t agree with your interpretation of the article doesn’t mean I didn’t even read it.

Weighing the real estate magnate’s dealings with both pre- and post-Soviet officials, the KGB, and the Russian mobs, Grok said that although there is no “smoking gun [that] proves direct control,” there’s a good chance that Trump is a “useful idiot” for Putin — especially given that “Trump’s ego and debts make him unwittingly pliable.”

“Adjusting for uncertainty and alternative explanations (e.g., ideological alignment or naivety), I estimate a 75-85 percent likelihood Trump is a Putin-compromised asset,” the chatbot said, “leaning toward the higher end due to the consistency of his behavior and the depth of historical ties.”

This just reads like Grok is any other source and not an LLM.

They should, but they’re human, and this is just such a quintessentially human thing – mindless hate and brutal torture are features, not bugs.

Well, headlining the article as “Elon’s Grok Chatbot Calculates Probability That Trump Is a Russian Asset” definitely makes it sound like it’s supposed to be a calculation of a probability and not just funny as hell.

Oh suddenly we think "AI"s are trustworthy?

I mean Trump definitely is a Russian asset, but what Grok says is neither here nor there

*crickets*

Hmph, not in sci-hub yet

Putin has been telling the EU to arm up?

Just your run of the mill neo-Nazi look, like RIchard Spencer:

I wonder if Putin will get Trump to try and sanction the EU for this?

Wonder how long it’ll take the “masses” to realise that this situation can’t be solved peacefully anymore

You should try to be a functional adult

Can I book you for parties? You’d be a great hit

lol. lmao even.