You should be more terrified. And also more glad

Well, the cars themselves weren’t racist though

Progress!

If you got laid off for your ethics, it’s probably a good thing in the long run

Would you rather have a rough time now, or slowly be hollowed out inside over the course of years before you get screwed over anyways?

Ethics don’t help you, but lack of ethics catches up with you. For most people, they don’t even benefit much before the other shoe drops

What do you mean? Any AI can replace any knowledge worker. You just fire the worker and say AI will do it, easy

Look around… Running a corporation isn’t about doing things or making things anymore, it’s about the stock price. And consulting companies have convinced investors that layoffs are so hot and rich

If you haven’t noticed, the quality of everything has been plummeting since COVID. They don’t care about tomorrow problems, just extracting as much wealth as they can before it all comes crashing down

It’s not real, so empathy is not required. Cartoons often have horrifying implications if you look too closely, because they’re not trying to represent reality

If you’re putting yourself in the place of the mother pig, you’re zoomed in to far. The absurdism is in the situation

Think of it this way, if the reason for the child dying was making some parallel to something real, like splitting the family due to deportation… That’s something grounded in reality, it would be horrible

But there is no situation where doctors turn children into meat as a service. The premise is absurd. There’s no danger a real person would ever go through this, this is pure fancy

The mother’s reaction isn’t to laugh at her pain, it’s to let us sit with the moment and let the joke land

Well I’d take the destinations on the Shinkansen for wherever I’m going now…

I mean… It is genuinely hard to work for someone not evil. Let’s say you’re an AI engineer… Meta is probably the best because most of the non-corporate LLMs flow from there… But they’re also using it to build personalized echo chambers, which is horrible

OpenAI is at the top and Microsoft has shown every inclination to make it a monopoly, so I could understand wanting to work on competitors

You could go smaller and work somewhere like anthropic, but then you don’t have the resources to be on the cutting edge (depending on your specialty)

I blame people who buy Teslas more than those who work at Tesla at this point. Especially when they slow walk the bad things…I mean, Twitter would probably be less Nazi if more talent stayed onboard to resist institutionally

You can change jobs if the new one also sponsors you, and it’s my understanding that xAI tapped people from Tesla, but I might be wrong about that

Anyways, what’s happening sure looks like malicious compliance to me… It’s really not that hard to get an AI to list far right talking points, it’s just hard to bake it into the model

So you have people that made a pretty good model, but also can’t figure out basic AI infrastructure? I find that very hard to believe

I’m not. What would you do in this situation? Let’s throw in that you’re on a visa, so you can’t just quit

I’d maliciously comply.

You want access to the prompt? Here you go boss man. You want grok to share your Nazi views? Sorry sir, we’ll have to totally start over with training data. Or we could use a modified RAG

You want help with the prompt? Sure boss man, what do you want it to do? Oh, you want it to notice Jewish names? Sure boss man, I don’t know what you mean by that, but now it keeps saying it’s “noticing”. That’s weird

Oh, you want to fine-tune it on your tweets? Sure thing boss man… Oh, would you look at that, it thinks it’s you. Nothing can be done about that, it’s too much data from one source. Well, should we roll it back boss man? Your call

I’d just keep playing this game… Elon isn’t going to come out and say “I want grok to be a Nazi”, and I’m not going to read between the lines for him. I’m not going to come up with ideas to solve the problem, I’m going to let Elon’s ego direct the course and throw out “we’ve designed grok to seek truth over all else” as much as possible

Do they? Because every time I’ve looked at the issue, it seems like they manufactured a crisis out of a small number of unrelated home invasions

Peppa pig isn’t real. This isn’t a situation that could ever happen

Can you suspend your disbelief so hard that a doctor turns your child into processed meat because of a misunderstanding?

If I try, I don’t know how to empathize with the situation except to be angry at the doctor, or the fact that a hospital offers that service at all. It’s an absurd premise

This isn’t a joke about a mother’s pain. It’s a comic about wordplay, and the disturbing implications of “our world but everyone is pigs”

Amateur. My dream job was just to exist in nature without a job, just creating to create, and instead I’m constantly tempted with employment

Yes, electronics are very cheap… But remember the part where they also have a mechanical mechanism? They have two systems, where most cars have this very simple lock that connects to a tiny motor assembly. It’s literally a piece of plastic and a few wires

The tablet thing is true, they’ve changed cars to computerize everything, and once you’ve done that you can connect everything over a network. Every button needs to do back to a chip to become a digital signal, so before you had these complex one-off wiring harnesses for everything

But the tablet thing is again, common. It makes sense, it’s just worse

But Elon is a unique case. Elon likes to actually make decisions, because he thinks he’s Tony Stark. He actually goes down into teams and hangs out, and they have to just work around whatever decisions he makes. It’s present in all of his companies, but you can see it most in Twitter, because they didn’t have time to build a team to strategically distract him when he comes to visit

This absolute idiot has spent the last month trying to get grok to be a literal Nazi. First, he added a bunch of white genocide to the prompt, making it change the topic to that from any question for a few days.

Now it’s responding all confused, and saying things like “I never gave Jeffrey Epstein tours of spaceX or Tesla” when asked it Elon did it. Seems to me they fed Elon’s tweets in the RAG system in a amateur way

He micromanages and meddles constantly… That’s what he does at his companies

For a counterexample, Jeff Bezos. He was heavily involved in the fire phone, and had some genuinely cool ideas… But the priorities were all wrong, so it flopped. He learned his lesson

No, the problem is they engineered something they didn’t need to, because Musk thinks everything should be electric because it’s cool. They had to then engineer a mechanical release, because it was required by law (for good reason)

Mechanical door locks would have been cheaper. The fly by wire in the cyber truck is far more expensive, heavier, and far more dangerous than the very well polished power steering systems every other car uses

Maybe it’s something like they wanted to make more money on repairs or something… But even that they could’ve done better by starting from very common, cheap technology

Let’s be clear… The real problem here is that Elon Musk, opinion having idiot that he is, made decisions from on high with very little understanding of engineering

Because it looks like candy. It feels like jelly. It’s individually wrapped in clear plastic, just like candy

Now, imagine someone leaves one of those on the counter, or in a random drawer. That’s where loose candy lives.

So of course other people, who maybe don’t do laundry and don’t often see tide pods, are going to go “oh, look, candy!”

And then they call poison control as they retch and the cells in the mouth turn to soap, and they get added to the statistics

You get hit by a baseball. Then you’re cursed with an overwhelming fear of getting hit by baseballs

This compels you to get protective equipment and hide behind a guy (who’s entire job is to catch the ball if it makes it past the batter)

No, that’s the rationalization. They admin wants to use palantir to collect data on American citizens, including giving ICE mobile camera installations to do face tracking. They want to do a 1984, and they don’t want any speed bumps from the states

Also, AI companies gave Trump money and there’s talk of restricting their power/water access to data centers to prioritize the people living nearby

You first. We’re not on board with any of this

Pretty much. I love technology, but honestly I’d be happier and healthier in a forest

I don’t think you understand.

Socialism isn’t on the table. We’re so incredibly far from that. Let me know when the revolution is coming and I’ll be there for it… Until then we very real issues that we can make a bit better. Not good - we’re totally fucked - but we can make things less horrible

There’s a genocide in progress. We’re going to go through a depression. We can tea party the Democrats to be more progressive… There’s no time to build up something new

I can’t impress on you enough how many people are going to die