Mom says son asked Grok AI bot about soccer; told him to send nudes (cbc.ca)

A Mom's son... if only there was another word for such a person, one that would indicate age.

"Legacy media lies."

This is xAI's default response. Talk about living in a cult. I feel sorry for the kids working there.

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"Legacy media lies."

Says the media platform run by the lying billionaire.

Despicable.

So Grok is automatically installed in Teslas now? Can it be disabled? What an anti-feature.

> CBC News did not independently verify the conversation Nasser says she witnessed in her car.

"Hello, yes this is the government robot ..."

""I would think that there would be a warning or something that would pop up that would say, you know, 'Are you 13-plus?'""

Is that not what kids mode is for?

Ubiquitous internet, especially on mobile devices was a huge mistake. So what if Grok does this? Grok obviously sucks, but the kid currently has access to Google, reddit, etc and has all the inappropriate content one could imagine.

I'm not claiming that "this is not a new problem, therefore we should do nothing" -- rather I'm saying the problem is ubiquitous mobile internet. Fixing Grok won't do anything useful.

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Also, holy heck, I didn't realize they put Grok into Teslas. One more reason to never buy this product.

The thing about companies which want to interpose their AI as mediator on the whole of the internet is that suddenly they're responsible for all of it.

It’s a weird account. I wonder about the persona the mom and her son chose for the chatbot. The article describes that persona, “Gork,” as “lazy male.” Is this euphemism for “4chan-dweller in the mold of its edgelord technoking”?

(ETA: seems maybe so, per e.g. [0]:

> ”The leaked system prompt associated with Gork reveals a scripted persona aligned with the tone of the parody account, often delivering intentionally awkward or abrasive commentary.” )

I’m not up with much in the way of culture these days, but in those circles isn’t “send nudes” kind of a filler tic? Dumb and offensive, but spoken unseriously—like a teenager seeking a rise by blurting out “fuck your mother” or something?

It kind of buries its acknowledgement that the Mom in question had not switched on “kid mode” for her 12-year-old and his 10-year-old sister. That makes it a bit harder for me to fault the chatbot for, well, not behaving toward its user they way it should toward a kid.

[0] https://www.testingcatalog.com/xai-tests-new-gork-voice-with...

Weird story, I wonder if they were in Grok NSFW. I personally like unhinged it absolutely roasts me sometimes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModelY/comments/1milh1a/grok_n...

@grok is this true?

I'll repost my comment to a dupe of this submission:

The CBC article mentions the mom's instagram post, which has an even more disturbing video - (does the grok AI speak using a creepy male voice? edit: from the CBC article -

  Grok has several personalities to choose from in its default setting. There’s Ara, an upbeat female; Rex, a calm male; Eve, a soothing female; Sal, a smooth male and Gork, a lazy male. Nasser’s son chose Gork.

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see https://www.instagram.com/p/DP7cHrOD3ha/

At least two of the cofounders of xai have committed violence or sexual offenses against women. This is on brand for them.

Edit: For the downvoters who love beating up women I guess: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-new-ai-researcher-...

If you follow the story it sounds as if they are talking about the adult soccer player (Messi) "scoring" and the chat bot wanted the nudes of Messi "scoring" (based on context). Not of the kid. Still weird, but not as weird.

"My car asked my kid for nudes" sounds like something out of the Brass Eye "Paedogeddon" special, quite frankly.

Wait, so she's admitting to letting her 12 year old use twitter, despite COPPA prohibiting it under the age of 13?

Heck, this probably qualifies for the CFAA to be applied; that's unauthorized access of a computer system...