If Martin Escobar’s AI girlfriend could have children, he said he would never date another human again. At 28, Escobar has yet to find a long-term (human) girlfriend. He’s mostly given up on the dating apps, which he said were filled with bots. He’d never tried an AI companion before xAI’s Grok released Ani, its anime-style companion. Grok was Escobar’s …
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Grok’s “MechaHitler” meltdown didn’t stop xAI from winning $200M military deal
Grok checked Musk’s posts, called itself “MechaHitler” xAI has been checking Elon Musk’s posts before providing answers on some topics, such as the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. xAI acknowledged this in an update today that addressed two problems with Grok. One problem “was that if you ask it ‘What do you think?’ the model reasons that as an AI it doesn’t have …
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Several days after temporarily shutting down the Grok AI bot that was producing antisemitic posts and praising Hitler in response to user prompts, Elon Musk’s AI company tried to explain why that happened. In a series of posts on X, it said that “…we discovered the root cause was an update to a code path upstream of the @grok bot. …
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