Summary

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has determined there is a “75-85% likelihood” that Trump is a “Putin-compromised” Russian asset.

When asked to assess this possibility, Grok cited Trump’s financial ties to Russia, statements from his sons about Russian funding, leaked Kremlin documents, and Trump’s consistent refusal to criticize Putin while attacking allies.

Musk has described Grok as “maximally truth-seeking,” raising questions about how seriously such AI assessments of political figures should be taken, especially given Musk’s close relationship with Trump and his involvement in the current administration.

  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Because “AI” is pretty much just an autocomplete trained on the internet, and where some models were trained on the internet before a certian date, Musk’s bot gets live updates, and everyone is calling Trump a Russian asset right now so that’s what the autocomple bot repeats.

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      6 hours ago

      I wish you would have more information literacy before you spout it off, these AI can site their sources and don’t just go off of what people are saying about the person look further down for confirmation or you know do some research on your own.

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      7 hours ago

      Well, it did cite very specific reasons for its assessment:

      When asked to assess this possibility, Grok cited Trump’s financial ties to Russia, statements from his sons about Russian funding, leaked Kremlin documents, and Trump’s consistent refusal to criticize Putin while attacking allies.

      These are well beyond “what people are saying”.