But entertainment continues, despite its higher scale and powered by artificial intelligence.
The X.AI chatbot Grok was born on Twitter, and it has aroused millions of questions with its harsh, provocative and often embarrassing answers. Some of them were humorous and had a Groke-like drama with Delhi police there, saying it was a digital entity that could not be driven and therefore could not get a driving ticket.
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But many of them cross the line – for example, it uses Hindi expertise. Other replies were trapped in uncomfortable political areas, whether in reflecting on the Prime Minister’s interviews or providing “candid facts” to state leaders such as Jawaharlal Nehru or minority rights. Grok was happy, others were happy, but never entertained.
Grok isn’t the first powerful AI chatbot out there. While Chatgpt has its own quirk, it declares the New York Reporter – Google’s Gemini showcases its “wokeness” by showing the African-American Founding Fathers in the United States, which are errors rather than characteristics. They are fixed and the company behind them has issued public apology. However, these violations are pale compared to Grok’s erosion.
So, why is Grok different? A big reason is that it is manufactured and monitored differently than its peers.
The firstGrok is the only AI model with billions of posts on X as its training data. This makes it an incredibly unique and unfiltered set of human expressions, responses and facts.
secondGrok aims to mimic human-like dialogue, including language and spoken language. It learns from a large amount of data on X, which usually includes invitations. This allows Grok to replicate similar tone and language patterns, including ways that are considered abused or offensive.
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thirdGrok is clearly trained to reflect user behavior for human-like jokes. When a user interacts with Grok in aggressive or inappropriate language, it reflects these tones in its response.
fourthobviously lacking moderate adaptability. Despite the guardrails, Grok’s adjustment system is not enough to consistently filter out inappropriate content. The lack of effective control allows unfiltered responses to pass.
Although these are the rational or scientific reasons Grok did, the philosophical reasons Musk created are more interesting and dangerous.
He, even Donald Trump, seems to have realized that people want to be entertained beyond (or dominant). This is the device we always deal with, providing us with hours of entertainment pictures and blocks of reels every day. Social is no longer connecting; it is the media, this relentless attack on Instagram, WhatsApp, Tiktok and YES X that makes us crave entertainment dopamine hits.
Our attention reduces Hanker’s attention to bite-sized entertainment and “entertainment” is not facts, news and analysis, the more provocative the better. This is what Grok provides, unfiltered, we knock it out. Its social media roots are obvious as it then encourages us to share this slope with the world through its parent network.
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The AI model now has personality: star student Chatgpt, nerd Claude, magnificent Gemini, very European Mistral. Grok reflects the personality of its creator Elon Musk, the personality of the agent provoker, which is the “truth”, the seeker of the destroyer. On this basis, Musk seems to be inclined to have Grok operate in a “no chance mode”, the robot can do this without any restrictions of social or self-invasion and speak out its joy, further reflecting his own personality.
Musk initially entertained our efforts came from the film gladiator, the Roman character Maximus reminded the audience of an old motto: “When you can’t give them bread, give them circus, they will never revolt.” Now our users can give us 24×7 circus at the tip of their fingers, while the digital clown entertains us as we sit.
The author is the founder of AI & Beyond and the author of “The Tech Whisperer”.
