TESLA and Elon Musk - anything not elsewhere

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[neonzx]

Tesla Cybertruck: driver dies in first fatal crash


https://electrek.co/2024/08/05/tesla-cy ... tal-crash/

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AP: Secretaries of state urge Elon Musk to fix AI chatbot spreading election misinformation on X:

Five secretaries of state are urging Elon Musk to fix an AI chatbot on the social media platform X, saying in a letter sent Monday that it has spread election misinformation.

The top election officials from Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Washington told Musk that X’s AI chatbot, Grok, produced false information about state ballot deadlines shortly after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race.

While Grok is available only to subscribers to the premium versions of X, the misinformation was shared across multiple social media platforms and reached millions of people, according to the letter. The bogus ballot deadline information from the chatbot also referenced Alabama, Indiana, Ohio and Texas, although their secretaries of state did not sign the letter. Grok continued to repeat the false information for 10 days before it was corrected, the secretaries said.

This explains why Grok results are being cited more often.

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AP: Secretaries of state urge Elon Musk to fix AI chatbot spreading election misinformation on X:

Five secretaries of state are urging Elon Musk to fix an AI chatbot on the social media platform X, saying in a letter sent Monday that it has spread election misinformation.

The top election officials from Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Washington told Musk that X’s AI chatbot, Grok, produced false information about state ballot deadlines shortly after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race.

While Grok is available only to subscribers to the premium versions of X, the misinformation was shared across multiple social media platforms and reached millions of people, according to the letter. The bogus ballot deadline information from the chatbot also referenced Alabama, Indiana, Ohio and Texas, although their secretaries of state did not sign the letter. Grok continued to repeat the false information for 10 days before it was corrected, the secretaries said.

This explains why Grok results are being cited more often.

Rokita, the Indiana AG, isn't interested in anything that doesn't get him PR on Faux News.

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This explains why Grok results are being cited more often.

It is also, if not by design, at least by side effect. ML i good at giving you the answer you want, which has made it really popular with people who want plausible deniability. "it isn't my fault, the machine I trained to do my bidding said it!'

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Elon Musk shares fake news about England rioters being sent to Falklands
X owner deletes post sharing faked Telegraph article that claimed convicted rioters would be sent to detention camps

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... ands-camps

Elon Musk shared a fake Telegraph article claiming Keir Starmer was considering sending far-right rioters to “emergency detainment camps” in the Falklands.

Musk deleted his post after about 30 minutes but a screenshot captured by Politics.co.uk suggests it had garnered nearly two million views before it was deleted.

In it, Musk shared the image posted by the co-leader of the far-right group Britain First, Ashlea Simon, which she captioned with, “we’re all being deported to the Falklands”.

The fake piece, purportedly written by a senior news reporter for the Telegraph and mocked up in the newspaper’s style, said camps in the Falklands “would be used to detain prisoners from the ongoing riots as the British prison system is already at capacity”.

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I'm surprised he bothered to delete it.

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