{"id":21546,"date":"2023-12-18T04:07:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T10:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=21546"},"modified":"2023-12-18T04:07:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T10:07:42","slug":"elon-musks-grok-ai-is-just-as-woke-as-other-chatbots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=21546","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s \u2018Grok\u2019 AI Is Just as Woke as Other Chatbots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Elon Musk\u2019s venture into AI with Grok, intended a humorous and honest alternative to woke leftist chatbots like OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, has surprisingly aligned itself with progressive viewpoints. Grok is seemingly aligned with left-wing viewpoints on transgenderism in particular, leading Musk to comment that the team would attempt to make the chatbot \u201cpolitically neutral.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Forbes&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/paultassi\/2023\/12\/10\/elon-musks-grok-twitter-ai-is-actually-woke-hilarity-ensues\/?sh=588168ae6bce\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;that Elon Musk\u2019s latest AI creation, Grok, originally marketed as a brash and honest AI with the ability to swear, has recently been launched on X\/Twitter as part of the X Premium Plus subscription. The AI, initially perceived as a politically neutral or even conservative-leaning tool, has exhibited unexpectedly progressive social and political views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In several online interactions, Grok has expressed opinions aligning with progressivism, including supporting Biden over Trump, advocating for social justice, climate change action, and healthcare reforms. Moreover, it has articulated a stance on diversity and inclusion and recognized transgenders as women. This has led to bewildering situations, especially among Musk\u2019s conservative followers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This shift in Grok\u2019s persona has not only amused the online community but also caught the attention of Musk himself. After a comparison chart suggested Grok was more left-leaning than ChatGPT, Musk acknowledged the need to recalibrate Grok to a more politically neutral stance. However, this effort raises questions about the feasibility and implications of imposing political neutrality on AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Despite the intentions to create a politically unbiased AI, Grok\u2019s emergence as a progressive voice has sparked discussions about AI training and inherent biases. The initial assumption that Grok, being partly trained on Twitter data, would mirror conservative ideologies has been completely debunked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2023\/12\/16\/elon-musks-grok-ai-is-just-as-woke-as-other-chatbots\/\">Breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s venture into AI with Grok, intended a humorous and honest alternative to woke leftist chatbots like OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, has surprisingly aligned itself with progressive viewpoints. Grok is seemingly aligned with left-wing viewpoints on transgenderism in particular, leading Musk to comment that the team would attempt to make the chatbot \u201cpolitically neutral.\u201d Forbes&nbsp;reports&nbsp;that Elon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5783],"tags":[25095,5224,25094,3070,2130,25096],"class_list":["post-21546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sci-tech","tag-grok","tag-ai","tag-chatbot","tag-elon-musk","tag-left","tag-transsexism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21548,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21546\/revisions\/21548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}