Below are posts associated with the “Elon Musk” tag.
🔗 linkblog: Grok’s Elon Musk worship is getting weird
This provides some helpful context, including confirming my suspicion that Twitter!Grok works differently than Base!Grok when it comes to these weird episodes.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Sometimes, AI news gets so depressing that it loops back around to hilarious.
🔗 linkblog: Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
Easy to dunk on Grokipedia, but this article gets at some ideas that I think are particularly important. If I had more time for blogging this semester, I’d write something up on Ellul’s image vs. word dichotomy and how it aligns with Koebler’s thoughts here.
🔗 linkblog: DOGE’s “Efficiency” Theater Comes Full Circle: Trump Admin Scrambles To Rehire The Very Workers Musk Fired To “Save Money”
Depressing read but very well put.
🔗 linkblog: The MechaHitler defense contract is raising red flags
Good overview of recent Grok nonsense.
🔗 linkblog: How Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image
Perhaps the best demonstration yet of why we need to talk about epistemology when we talk about generative AI. Gift link. It turns out that it takes an awful lot of intervention to get Grok to be “maximally truth-seeking” and “neutral.”
🔗 linkblog: The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok ‘ASAP’
There are many worse things happening in our country right now, but also: this is petty and embarrassing.
🔗 linkblog: Grok's 'Spicy' Mode Makes NSFW Celebrity Deepfakes of Women (But Not Men)
Unsurprising but disappointing.
🔗 linkblog: I Tried Grok’s Built-In Anime Companion and It Called Me a Twat
Musk leans into the bro in tech bro.