Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting

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Grok has repeatedly misidentified video of the Bondi Beach shooting and the hero who disarmed a gunman.

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The AI chatbot has repeatedly misidentified 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who heroically disarmed one of the shooters, and claimed the verified video of his deed was something else entirely — including that it was an old viral video of a man climbing a tree.

In the aftermath of the attack, Ahmed has been widely praised for his heroism, but some have tried to dismiss or even deny his actions. Someone even quickly whipped up a fake news site that appears to be AI-generated, with an article naming a fictitious IT professional, Edward Crabtree, as the man who disarmed the attacker. This, of course, got picked up by Grok and regurgitated on X.

But Grok also suggested that images of Ahmed were of an Israeli being held hostage by Hamas. And it claimed that video taken at the scene was actually of Currumbin Beach, Australia, during Cyclone Alfred.

It’s hallucinating, but in MAGA 🤣

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It’s working as intended.

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Surely at some point this would run foul of defamation laws (Australia’s ones can be brutal under the right circumstances). I kinda get wanting to let AIs have a bit of leniency by you then hit the obvious problem of people just hiding behind AIs when they want to make a defamatory claim or just don’t care about being accurate and then blame the AI. Especially with claims like this which if spread, can cause serious reputational harm or even death.

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Not within the USA. I don’t know the exact details, but basically all regulation of AI-related stuff is suspended for 10 years or so.
By then they will be the dominating force.
And then they cry about the EU trying to enforce their own laws.

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Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting

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And shit stinks. Now here’s Tom with the weather

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The lying machine lied, color me surprised.

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The same grok owned by the racist, bigoted Nazi? That grok?

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Grok spreading lies and misinformation? Couldn’t be…

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Who freakin’ cares? I still get my news from various human sources. Is there anyone out there screaming “Grok! Save us!”.

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Chill bro grok was just trolling..

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Grok this grok that…
I’m sorry, but *k grok. Stop posting about it.

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You can say “fuck” on the internet.

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Not in ml you can’t lol. Bootlicking is hard work.

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What?? That’s insane…

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It’s also untrue.

Watch: Fuck

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Are you saying it in ml if you’re posting on a different instance? Can the ml mods block this comment, or ban you from a community on an instance they don’t moderate?

I’m not sure were the other person is coming from, I’ve seen a lot of “fuck” and “BLYAT” on ml.

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“Communism is so hot that it makes me want to fuck communism"
Sorry, I’m being a smartarse.

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False slander (ironic considering what we’re discussing).

Only slurs are auto removed including a very common one against women pertaining as well to female dogs. You can say fuck, shit, asshole, etc.

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Well, slurs and literally anything critical of Leninism. But you’re correct, I was being hyperbolic. It’s the only instance I can think of with extensive censorship but it’s not applied to all swear words.

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*k

Hey, how do you know my password?

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groak is your password too?

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I would not mind more sites feeding bad data to LLM’s.

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i.e. to render it useless?

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