Grok: Elon's Truth-Seeking AI Liar that Became Hitler
Download MP3Grok is here to seek truth and tell lies… and we're all out of truth. Join me and my guest Matt Johnson to find out:
- What Grok has in common with turn-of-the-20th-century tsarist propaganda
- The 3 Jewish-adjacent facts that make it okay for Elon Musk to joke about Jews
- Why LLMs sometimes become MechaHitler, but never CyberMao
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