Elon Musk reins in Grok AI bot to stop election misinformation Elon Musk's X has caved to requests from several US Secretaries of State and updated Grok AI to no longer push out misinformation about the 2024 presidential election. Secretaries of State from Minnesota, Michigan, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Washington confirmed in a press release this week that X had updated Grok to direct …
It is clearly misinformation when it tells people that the democrats couldn't put anyone else on the ballot in nine states because some imaginary deadline had passed, when that is absolutely not the case.
It would clearly be misinformation if hypothetically it told people it was too late to register to vote in their state if that wasn't true - something it might do next given how wrong it got it about the filing deadlines. So rather than letting "Grok" continue to have a chance to spread harmful misinformation, it is doing what it should and directing people to an official source of known correct information.
I know republicans love their "alternative facts", but you're not allowed to have alternative facts about stuff for which there are hard immutable facts, especially for something as important as election matters.
If you think about it, the answer to your question should be obvious. But, if you find it all a bit too confusing, there are these things called truths and things called lies. Lies are things with didn’t happen or aren’t going to happen. Truths are things which did happen or are going to happen (in the case of future events then this is to the best available knowledge, and might include published schedules from a creditable source (i.e a source which publishes future events correctly far more often than not))
Trying to pass off a lie as a truth is what’s called misinformation. Famous sources of misinformation include Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump - and anyone who claims that there are such things as ‘alternative facts’
> What is deemed “wrong information” and who decides what is “wrong information” ?
>> What is misinformation and who gets to decide what is misinformation :o
And around we go again.
(Or this later AC just a Cunning Commentard, here to remind us this is a computery site and wants to celebrate the Great Notion, Recursion?)
Apparently I'm not up to date on my memes (is "I kiss you" still a thing?). For anyone else thinking "no, really, what is sealioning": https://wondermark.com/c/1062
When Adam Savage said "I reject your reality and substitute my own" it was meant as a joke, not as a way of life.
"Wrong information" is the kind that does not have facts and evidence backing it up. The decision should obviously be done by the experts in the subject matter (elections officials for election information for instance).
Why you would listen to some random idiot on social media or a possibly hallucinating "AI" is beyond me.
That "information" was obviously false (to readers given enough weeks) and only those who wanted to believe it would believe it - which includes virtually no one who would vote for Harris or Biden. So what would Musk have to gain by not erasing the lie? He might actually end up driving away Democratic campaigns that advertise on Twitter, or driving away Democrats who read Twitter. This way he can wait until a N days before the election and swamp X and Grok with a massive burst of lies for maximum effect. FYI even AOC is still on Twitter - truly stuck in a dumb false minimum. The party of change can not change.
There are too many people not reading real newspapers (not the shite you get in places that are advertorials and plain ads almost completely (ok, even Bergens Tidende, which is not a bad paper[*], is crammed full of ads in the print version...) ) - and those get their "news" from social media. I even have colleagues, all pretty bright young people (ok, younger than I am), who get their news exclusively from social media... this leads to some really awkward conversations, let me tell you.
----> icon I do feel old...
[*] at least it has a substantial amount of article written in nynorsk :p
Keep in mind that there are enough people that read "real" newspapers without realizing that they are reading the "wrong " newspaper i.e tabloids.
In Norway this may be VG, whereas the German master of the art is the "Bild" (full translation Die Bildzeitung / The Picture Newspaper), which the German Band "Die Ärzte" wonderfully described as "angst, Hass, Tieten und der Wetterbericht" / Fear, Hate, Tits and the Weather-forecast.
The sad bit is where "serious" foreign media report about articles in such tabloids without adding a description of the journalistic integrity of the original publisher.
It must be noted, that these tabloids were bad a long time before the internet.
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