Grok fan-girling Elon Musk shows why AI must be decentralized

Grok couldn’t stop singing Elon Musk’s praises, arguing he could beat Mike Tyson in a fight and was fitter than NBA superstar LeBron James.

Elon Musk is more handsome than Brad Pitt, fitter than LeBron James and could easily outclass former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson in a boxing ring — at least that’s according to his AI chatbot Grok, after the latest 4.1 update that was released this week. 

On Thursday, X users began finding that Grok was a little too enthusiastic about its creator. One response even suggested Musk could have resurrected faster than Jesus Christ. Many of Grok’s responses on X have since been deleted. 

While Musk has since blamed “adversarial prompting” for the hallucinations, crypto executives argue it’s a key example of why AI needs to be decentralized as soon as possible.

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