‘Elon Musk's artificial intelligence start-up xAI says it is working to remove "inappropriate" posts on the multi-billionaire's social network X…
According to media reports, Grok made multiple positive references to Hitler this week when queried about posts that appeared to celebrate the deaths of children in the recent Texas floods.
In response to a question asking "which 20th century historical figure" would be best suited to deal with such posts, Grok said: "To deal with such vile anti-white hate? Adolf Hitler, no question."
"If calling out radicals cheering dead kids makes me 'literally Hitler,' then pass the mustache.”’
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g8r34nxeno
I mean, totes inappropes… but “pass the moustache”
If individuals want to continue using twitter and supporting this stuff that's on them but I'm surprised more journalists, govts and organisations haven't vacated the platform
On pensions as well, I see the latest outrage by the likes of the Express is that if income tax thresholds don't change then pensioners will likely have to pay income tax on state pensions in 2027/28.
You'd think it'd actually be a good thing if pensions rise to the point they're above tax thresholds, but apparently not.
‘Britain's biggest housebuilders have agreed to pay £100m towards affordable homes to avoid a regulator's decision on whether they broke competition law.
The seven firms have also agreed not to share commercially sensitive information such as how much houses have sold for "except in limited circumstances".
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) last year began investigating whether housebuilders had been swapping information, such as pricing and the incentives offered to buyers such as upgraded kitchens or stamp duty contributions.
The watchdog said if it accepts the firms' offer it will mean "that it is not necessary for the CMA to decide whether the housebuilders broke competition law".’
More moneyed scuuumbags whose illegal anticompetitive practices have done real, tangible damage across the nation off the hook, just as one Just Stop Oil protestor, who was sentenced to four years in prison for slowing traffic on the M25 on one single day in a desperate bid to force the govt to pay attention to global climate collapse, is released from prison.
Just the system doing its thing: protecting capital above any and all other costs.
comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted 1 minute ago
On pensions as well, I see the latest outrage by the likes of the Express is that if income tax thresholds don't change then pensioners will likely have to pay income tax on state pensions in 2027/28.
You'd think it'd actually be a good thing if pensions rise to the point they're above tax thresholds, but apparently not.
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Agreed in principle; but the lower threshold of income tax should really be baselined to inflation (like the state pension).
If an income tax grab is desperately needed, don’t do it by taxing those who would previously have been exempt in real terms. Do it by altering the rates or thresholds in higher bands.
comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 27 minutes ago
‘Elon Musk's artificial intelligence start-up xAI says it is working to remove "inappropriate" posts on the multi-billionaire's social network X…
According to media reports, Grok made multiple positive references to Hitler this week when queried about posts that appeared to celebrate the deaths of children in the recent Texas floods.
In response to a question asking "which 20th century historical figure" would be best suited to deal with such posts, Grok said: "To deal with such vile anti-white hate? Adolf Hitler, no question."
"If calling out radicals cheering dead kids makes me 'literally Hitler,' then pass the mustache.”’
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g8r34nxeno
I mean, totes inappropes… but “pass the moustache”
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Is this how AI works? I thought true AI is for the machine to learn and adapt according to its own findings. Everytime something happens with Grok that Fatface Staypuft doesn't like, Musk's default answer is "we'll fix that", and it becomes more edgy.
Fixing the facking thing from the backend isn't real AI. It is not learning, it is being constrained by human design. Yes there should be some guardrails insofar as to prevent it to go full Skynet, but this isn't it.
Elon Musk is a genius.
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 27 minutes ago
If individuals want to continue using twitter and supporting this stuff that's on them but I'm surprised more journalists, govts and organisations haven't vacated the platform
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None of it is fact checked and in its raw form, but apparently they use it because it is not published anywhere else: wHaT aRe ThEy HiDiNg?
Then you get Musk banning people whose tweets he doesn't like. This is what free speech absolutist looks like, ladies and gentlemen.
I’ve been banned from posting on Twitter recently.
I’ve genuinely not written anything offensive, but maybe did call a few Israeli and US government officials fascist.
Free speech indeed.
Proud to say I have never had a Twitter account.
comment by mancWoohoo- maximus mardius cob-onius (U10676)
Is this how AI works? I thought true AI is for the machine to learn and adapt according to its own findings. Everytime something happens with Grok that Fatface Staypuft doesn't like, Musk's default answer is "we'll fix that", and it becomes more edgy.
Fixing the facking thing from the backend isn't real AI. It is not learning, it is being constrained by human design. Yes there should be some guardrails insofar as to prevent it to go full Skynet, but this isn't it.
Elon Musk is a genius.
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"True and Real" you are talking about Hard AI.
Soft AI is also AI.
It's a big multidisciplinary field and it's not easy to define concepts such as true and real.
Even the moderates' moderates - Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell - have now turned, unreservedly, against the actions of the Netanyahu regime, and have also hit out at David Lammy and Keir Starmer for their continuing support of the Israeli offensive.
Both agree that Israel is committing ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity in Gaza, and that Lammy and Starmer's position and rhetoric have become self-conflicting and indefensible.
Campbell accepts that he has arrived at this position "too late" as a result of trying too hard, for too long, to be "as balanced as possible".
“It’s impossible to defend this” | Alastair and Rory Call Out Israel - The Rest Is Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p0PMhDwq4s
It's important that these kind of people, with (rightly or wrongly) such reach and influence, are directly singling and calling out the leadership of the UK govt.
Is Starmer waiting for Macron to take affirmative action?
When Trump confirmed that defensive weapons delivery to Ukraine will resume after he didn't like Putin's actions, he was asked "so who ordered the pause last week?"
The Commander-in-Chief, the most powerful person in the free world, the President of the United States of America replied: "I dunno, why don't you tell me?"
Free World you say?
Is America actually part of the Free World anymore?
I said that with a hint of sarcasm and a dash of irony.
Donald J Tump, oratorial masterclass:
“… not only the pilots, I mean those machines flew for 37 straight hours. They didn’t stop. They went skidaddle. You know the word skiddadle? It means **skidaddle**. They dropped the bombs and somebody said “skidaddle, let’s get the hell outta here...” ".
Somebody put this on that Haribo advert.
comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 2 hours, 7 minutes ago
Even the moderates' moderates - Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell - have now turned, unreservedly, against the actions of the Netanyahu regime, and have also hit out at David Lammy and Keir Starmer for their continuing support of the Israeli offensive.
Both agree that Israel is committing ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity in Gaza, and that Lammy and Starmer's position and rhetoric have become self-conflicting and indefensible.
Campbell accepts that he has arrived at this position "too late" as a result of trying too hard, for too long, to be "as balanced as possible".
“It’s impossible to defend this” | Alastair and Rory Call Out Israel - The Rest Is Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p0PMhDwq4s
It's important that these kind of people, with (rightly or wrongly) such reach and influence, are directly singling and calling out the leadership of the UK govt.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
How long did it take for him to arrive at Iraq not having WMD’s?
comment by mancWoohoo- maximus mardius cob-onius (U10676)
posted 1 hour ago
Donald J Tump, oratorial masterclass:
“… not only the pilots, I mean those machines flew for 37 straight hours. They didn’t stop. They went skidaddle. You know the word skiddadle? It means **skidaddle**. They dropped the bombs and somebody said “skidaddle, let’s get the hell outta here...” ".
Somebody put this on that Haribo advert.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I always have to google to see if he actually said these things because even for him they’re ridiculous.
He's genuinely one of the funniest people in the world, just a shame about everything else
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 5 hours, 55 minutes ago
Proud to say I have never had a Twitter account.
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comment by Cinciwolf-----JA606 NFL fantasy champ 2023 (U11551)
posted 17 seconds ago
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 5 hours, 55 minutes ago
Proud to say I have never had a Twitter account.
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I had won PHWOAR! too daze
comment by 4zA (U22472)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by Cinciwolf-----JA606 NFL fantasy champ 2023 (U11551)
posted 17 seconds ago
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 5 hours, 55 minutes ago
Proud to say I have never had a Twitter account.
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I had won PHWOAR! too daze
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comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted 37 minutes ago
He's genuinely one of the funniest people in the world, just a shame about everything else
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posted on 9/7/25
‘Elon Musk's artificial intelligence start-up xAI says it is working to remove "inappropriate" posts on the multi-billionaire's social network X…
According to media reports, Grok made multiple positive references to Hitler this week when queried about posts that appeared to celebrate the deaths of children in the recent Texas floods.
In response to a question asking "which 20th century historical figure" would be best suited to deal with such posts, Grok said: "To deal with such vile anti-white hate? Adolf Hitler, no question."
"If calling out radicals cheering dead kids makes me 'literally Hitler,' then pass the mustache.”’
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g8r34nxeno
I mean, totes inappropes… but “pass the moustache”
posted on 9/7/25
If individuals want to continue using twitter and supporting this stuff that's on them but I'm surprised more journalists, govts and organisations haven't vacated the platform
posted on 9/7/25
On pensions as well, I see the latest outrage by the likes of the Express is that if income tax thresholds don't change then pensioners will likely have to pay income tax on state pensions in 2027/28.
You'd think it'd actually be a good thing if pensions rise to the point they're above tax thresholds, but apparently not.
posted on 9/7/25
‘Britain's biggest housebuilders have agreed to pay £100m towards affordable homes to avoid a regulator's decision on whether they broke competition law.
The seven firms have also agreed not to share commercially sensitive information such as how much houses have sold for "except in limited circumstances".
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) last year began investigating whether housebuilders had been swapping information, such as pricing and the incentives offered to buyers such as upgraded kitchens or stamp duty contributions.
The watchdog said if it accepts the firms' offer it will mean "that it is not necessary for the CMA to decide whether the housebuilders broke competition law".’
More moneyed scuuumbags whose illegal anticompetitive practices have done real, tangible damage across the nation off the hook, just as one Just Stop Oil protestor, who was sentenced to four years in prison for slowing traffic on the M25 on one single day in a desperate bid to force the govt to pay attention to global climate collapse, is released from prison.
Just the system doing its thing: protecting capital above any and all other costs.
posted on 9/7/25
comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted 1 minute ago
On pensions as well, I see the latest outrage by the likes of the Express is that if income tax thresholds don't change then pensioners will likely have to pay income tax on state pensions in 2027/28.
You'd think it'd actually be a good thing if pensions rise to the point they're above tax thresholds, but apparently not.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Agreed in principle; but the lower threshold of income tax should really be baselined to inflation (like the state pension).
If an income tax grab is desperately needed, don’t do it by taxing those who would previously have been exempt in real terms. Do it by altering the rates or thresholds in higher bands.
posted on 9/7/25
comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 27 minutes ago
‘Elon Musk's artificial intelligence start-up xAI says it is working to remove "inappropriate" posts on the multi-billionaire's social network X…
According to media reports, Grok made multiple positive references to Hitler this week when queried about posts that appeared to celebrate the deaths of children in the recent Texas floods.
In response to a question asking "which 20th century historical figure" would be best suited to deal with such posts, Grok said: "To deal with such vile anti-white hate? Adolf Hitler, no question."
"If calling out radicals cheering dead kids makes me 'literally Hitler,' then pass the mustache.”’
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g8r34nxeno
I mean, totes inappropes… but “pass the moustache”
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Is this how AI works? I thought true AI is for the machine to learn and adapt according to its own findings. Everytime something happens with Grok that Fatface Staypuft doesn't like, Musk's default answer is "we'll fix that", and it becomes more edgy.
Fixing the facking thing from the backend isn't real AI. It is not learning, it is being constrained by human design. Yes there should be some guardrails insofar as to prevent it to go full Skynet, but this isn't it.
Elon Musk is a genius.
posted on 9/7/25
pass the moustache
posted on 9/7/25
posted on 9/7/25
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 27 minutes ago
If individuals want to continue using twitter and supporting this stuff that's on them but I'm surprised more journalists, govts and organisations haven't vacated the platform
----------------------------------------------------------------------
None of it is fact checked and in its raw form, but apparently they use it because it is not published anywhere else: wHaT aRe ThEy HiDiNg?
Then you get Musk banning people whose tweets he doesn't like. This is what free speech absolutist looks like, ladies and gentlemen.
posted on 9/7/25
I’ve been banned from posting on Twitter recently.
I’ve genuinely not written anything offensive, but maybe did call a few Israeli and US government officials fascist.
Free speech indeed.
posted on 9/7/25
Proud to say I have never had a Twitter account.
posted on 9/7/25
comment by mancWoohoo- maximus mardius cob-onius (U10676)
Is this how AI works? I thought true AI is for the machine to learn and adapt according to its own findings. Everytime something happens with Grok that Fatface Staypuft doesn't like, Musk's default answer is "we'll fix that", and it becomes more edgy.
Fixing the facking thing from the backend isn't real AI. It is not learning, it is being constrained by human design. Yes there should be some guardrails insofar as to prevent it to go full Skynet, but this isn't it.
Elon Musk is a genius.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
"True and Real" you are talking about Hard AI.
Soft AI is also AI.
It's a big multidisciplinary field and it's not easy to define concepts such as true and real.
posted on 9/7/25
Even the moderates' moderates - Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell - have now turned, unreservedly, against the actions of the Netanyahu regime, and have also hit out at David Lammy and Keir Starmer for their continuing support of the Israeli offensive.
Both agree that Israel is committing ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity in Gaza, and that Lammy and Starmer's position and rhetoric have become self-conflicting and indefensible.
Campbell accepts that he has arrived at this position "too late" as a result of trying too hard, for too long, to be "as balanced as possible".
“It’s impossible to defend this” | Alastair and Rory Call Out Israel - The Rest Is Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p0PMhDwq4s
It's important that these kind of people, with (rightly or wrongly) such reach and influence, are directly singling and calling out the leadership of the UK govt.
posted on 9/7/25
Is Starmer waiting for Macron to take affirmative action?
posted on 9/7/25
When Trump confirmed that defensive weapons delivery to Ukraine will resume after he didn't like Putin's actions, he was asked "so who ordered the pause last week?"
The Commander-in-Chief, the most powerful person in the free world, the President of the United States of America replied: "I dunno, why don't you tell me?"
posted on 9/7/25
Free World you say?
Is America actually part of the Free World anymore?
posted on 9/7/25
I said that with a hint of sarcasm and a dash of irony.
posted on 9/7/25
Donald J Tump, oratorial masterclass:
“… not only the pilots, I mean those machines flew for 37 straight hours. They didn’t stop. They went skidaddle. You know the word skiddadle? It means **skidaddle**. They dropped the bombs and somebody said “skidaddle, let’s get the hell outta here...” ".
Somebody put this on that Haribo advert.
posted on 9/7/25
comment by EVERYTHING’S POTE! (U17054)
posted 2 hours, 7 minutes ago
Even the moderates' moderates - Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell - have now turned, unreservedly, against the actions of the Netanyahu regime, and have also hit out at David Lammy and Keir Starmer for their continuing support of the Israeli offensive.
Both agree that Israel is committing ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity in Gaza, and that Lammy and Starmer's position and rhetoric have become self-conflicting and indefensible.
Campbell accepts that he has arrived at this position "too late" as a result of trying too hard, for too long, to be "as balanced as possible".
“It’s impossible to defend this” | Alastair and Rory Call Out Israel - The Rest Is Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p0PMhDwq4s
It's important that these kind of people, with (rightly or wrongly) such reach and influence, are directly singling and calling out the leadership of the UK govt.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
How long did it take for him to arrive at Iraq not having WMD’s?
posted on 9/7/25
comment by mancWoohoo- maximus mardius cob-onius (U10676)
posted 1 hour ago
Donald J Tump, oratorial masterclass:
“… not only the pilots, I mean those machines flew for 37 straight hours. They didn’t stop. They went skidaddle. You know the word skiddadle? It means **skidaddle**. They dropped the bombs and somebody said “skidaddle, let’s get the hell outta here...” ".
Somebody put this on that Haribo advert.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I always have to google to see if he actually said these things because even for him they’re ridiculous.
posted on 9/7/25
He's genuinely one of the funniest people in the world, just a shame about everything else
posted on 9/7/25
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 5 hours, 55 minutes ago
Proud to say I have never had a Twitter account.
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same
posted on 9/7/25
comment by Cinciwolf-----JA606 NFL fantasy champ 2023 (U11551)
posted 17 seconds ago
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 5 hours, 55 minutes ago
Proud to say I have never had a Twitter account.
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same
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I had won PHWOAR! too daze
posted on 9/7/25
comment by 4zA (U22472)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by Cinciwolf-----JA606 NFL fantasy champ 2023 (U11551)
posted 17 seconds ago
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 5 hours, 55 minutes ago
Proud to say I have never had a Twitter account.
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same
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I had won PHWOAR! too daze
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posted on 9/7/25
comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted 37 minutes ago
He's genuinely one of the funniest people in the world, just a shame about everything else
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