Important update on Grok nonsense.

Walking disaster.

I concede that appeals to the environmental costs of AI sometimes feel knee-jerk and lacking nuance. However, you can always count on Musk to provide a clear example of the harms of AI, and this is a particularly compelling one.

Another good take on Leo and Tolkien.

What wild times we live in that it sounds plausible that the pope might me throwing shade at a billionnaire with LotR references.

Hate reads are a thing; what about petty reads? Loved this article so much.

Tim Cook is a coward.

Terrifying stuff.

Wish I were better read on information ecosystems, because this seems important.

Unsurprising, I guess, but still newsworthy.

Holy crap, these numbers. This passage really stood out:

“This is industrial-scale abuse of women and girls,” said Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which conducts research on online hate and disinformation. “There have been nudifying tools, but they have never had the distribution, ease of use or the integration into a large platform that Elon Musk did with Grok.”

Good overview of an enraging story.

This is such a perfectly dumb oversight.

This is a very cathartic read.

Pair this with Emanuel Maiberg’s article I linked to earlier, and there’s a lot to think about.

I sometimes wonder if base Grok is less wild than integrated-with-Twitter Grok, but this is at least one way in which that’s not true.

Excellent writing on what’s going on over at Twitter.

Wait what

Surely Elon “assassination coordinates” Musk is outraged that his own AI would do this. Right?

Very helpful context—especially as I consider writing a paper on Grokipedia.

This provides some helpful context, including confirming my suspicion that Twitter!Grok works differently than Base!Grok when it comes to these weird episodes.

Sometimes, AI news gets so depressing that it loops back around to hilarious.

What. The. Hell.

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.

Depressing read but very well put.

Good overview of recent Grok nonsense.