Elon Musk’s Grok made the world less safe – his humiliating backdown gives me hopium |
Billionaire and career Bond-villain cosplayer Elon Musk has been forced by public backlash into a humiliating backdown over use of his AI chatbot, Grok. Watching the world’s richest man eat a shit sandwich on a global stage represents a rare win for sovereign democracy.
Because – unlike his company history of labour and safety abuses … his exploding rockets … his government interventions that deny aid to the starving … disabling Starlink internet systems in war zones … sharing “white solidarity” statements … or growing concern about overvaluations of his company’s share price – the nature of Grok’s latest scandal may finally be inspiring governments towards imposing some Musk-limiting red lines.
Scully, I want to believe.
In its signature tone of “insufferable jerk who’s just completed his first online webinar on how to patronise girls”, Musk’s chatbot appeared this week to make the world less safe, less fair and perhaps even as unpleasant as a fascist-styled, ketamine-addled rich-kid dipshit in cheese hat dancing while the world burns, if one could imagine such an awful thing.
Grok’s latest notoriety isn’t because it’s shared false information – though it has, previously, downplayed the Holocaust due to a claimed “programming error” and, more recently, spread........