KayLeadfoot

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[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 26 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Unfortunately, you've been replaced by AI.

... so, the Cybertruck will blow itself up.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 10 points 11 hours ago

There's a lot going on in there. None of it good.

 

The new Grok 4 didn't make it halfway through its first day on the job before hurling racial conspiracy theories at users.

This is the same Grok that Elon Musk promises will be added to Tesla vehicles by "next week at the latest."

You'll remember that Grok 3 was briefly shut down just earlier this week for a different bunch of antisemitic outbursts. This doesn't bode well for the state of AI safety guardrails or Q/A at xAI.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 3 points 12 hours ago

As I typed it I read it and I was like "do I shoot my shot and make the joke?" and I had a rare moment of self-restraint

But Grok would be like "you had me at 𝔤𝔢𝔯𝔪𝔞𝔫"

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I'm... very sad at how germane that question is in 2025.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Us embracing that radical positivity

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

This is Grok v4. I would demonstrate a proof, but it is the paid version, and I won't pay Elon a bent cent.

It was released today, so this is after the shutdown where they supposedly fixed it :)

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

That's the rub. Sometimes you don't know the utility of a tool until you build it. The future is weird that way.

Who would have thought WHAT people would chat with ChatGPT about? Like, romance? WTF? That's strange, call it emergent behavior, the final utility was unexpected.

In my head, I anticipate the tool going down the track of voice assistants from the pre-AI phase, so just like Alexa for directions or simple searches, but local to the car. Maybe unintended utilities will arise? If it can do directions and music and web searches, I guess, we don't really know what other utilities drivers will find for it yet?

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I respect your take :)

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nothing a little jumper cable jump won't fix!

Finish the job.

 

LOL, ready to roll out to the whole Tesla fleet before next week, amirite?

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

WilhelmScream.wav

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 7 points 1 day ago

I was about to say, that might make the car safer on net!

Less compute means less bandwidth to hallucinate demons in front of you on a totally unobstructed straightaway.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

"Oh wow they added Grok to a boomerrang, too!"

(joke only makes sense with sound on XD )

 

I'm not sure the SS trim stands for "super sport," y'all.

 

Not even a single full day into operation, and the new Grok 4 is hurling racist conspiracy theories at users.

According to Elon Musk, no later than next week, it will be added to Tesla vehicles.

 

Update: engineers updated the @Grok system prompt, removing a line that encouraged it to be politically incorrect when the evidence in its training data supported it.

 

Not a great look.

 

In case you were worried about cars being too safe, don't worry. The most lethal car brand in the USA is pushing the envelope and innovating entirely new ways to make a nuisance of themselves.

Also, the dash cam footage of Tesla's self-driving tech is terrifying.

 

With Tesla, you can turn a $2,442 windshield installation into a $3,174 windshield installation through the power of interest.

This is being reported by the Teslasphere as an "excellent option" to restore affordability to a car market that desperately needs more affordability.

Only, neither of those numbers is even in the same ballpark as affordable.

 

With Tesla, you can turn a $2,442 windshield installation into a $3,174 windshield installation through the power of interest.

This is being reported by the Teslasphere as an "excellent option" to restore affordability.

Neither of those numbers is even vaguely affordable, but the higher one can be reduced to bite-sized chunks.

 

Nissan isn't at death's door... but it's close.

 

Do you know what taxi works when it rains?

The bicycle taxi.

Somehow, one of the world's overvalued companies can't figure out what every pedicab operator already knows.

 

It's hard to imagine any non-car-based technology being given so much freedom to experiment on public streets with only the iffiest of safety protections.

Tesla Robotaxis drive like they're drunk, and that's probably an unfair comparison for the drunk drivers.

See for yourself, one Redditor is on a personal mission to document all the mistakes from the Robotaxi rollout in Austin TX this week.

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