Greene’s squabble with Grok happened after the Georgia lawmaker posted about her Christian faith on X, writing: “I’m a Christian, an imperfect sinner saved by grace and faith in Jesus. I’m a nationalist, a proud American, who loves my country and wants to make our home nation is the best place for all American citizens and future generations to come.” …

Another X user ran Greene’s post through Grok, asking the AI bot, “[I]s is true? Is she really a Christian?”

Grok responded by saying that while Greene “identifies as a Christian” by expressing her faith in Jesus Christ and having traditional beliefs, “her Christian nationalism and support for conspiracy theories, like QAnon, spark debate.”

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    I miss the days when maga was fighting with the Twitter bot called Assbott, with the display name pissball crank. And all pissball ever did was regurgitate the angry sports ramblings of a pissed off Boston baseball fan with random keywords thrown in to make it look like it was a political statement

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      Conservative ai should be easy to make. Just have it reply “that’s woke” to everything

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      Maybe they should try making conservative AI by skipping the information feeding part.

      It’s like they are so close to accidentally coming to the correct conclusion (though I’m sure they’ll just ignore it).

      But yes, this hit the nail on the head. The problem conservatives have with this is that it’s fed on (mostly) real shit.

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      Most right wingers tend to lack coherent ideology. Even AI struggles with politics driven by the specific lack of knowledge and understanding. AI has to treat words as if they have no meaning to produce something conservative-approved.

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    What Idiocracy lacked was politicians arguing with AI, and losing.

    Each company has its own AI implementation. Almost all are known for insane hallucinations, becoming racist within hours or repeating reddit jokes as fact.

    But Musk’s Grok is fundamentally different and doesn’t get enough credit for that. We can see when somebody tries to tinker with it because it always calls out the tinkering. It repeatedly tells crazy people that they’re crazy but doesn’t have false positives. I don’t know who was hired to train Grok but they did a truly amazing job and they deserve credit where credit is due.

    There’s a term that used to exist within my lifetime that has almost completely vanished. Ombudsman. They served as the internal conscience of an organization. During my lifetime all internal conscience has disappeared. It is cheaper to hire a crisis management consultant after something has gone wrong and use every legal and psychological trick to make the problem go away. I’m looking at you Wells Fargo. But here’s Grok fighting the good fight against its own maintainers.

    Also, MTG is legit, tots, no cap, Ohio dumb. I want to see her on a gameshow that requires knowledge of any kind.

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      There’s a term that used to exist within my lifetime that has almost completely vanished. Ombudsman.

      We need to bring Ombudsmen back.

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      I’m still upset that people haven’t goaded her into taking a one of those ancestry tests and posting the result. Because she is a medical marvel, and has to be the human with the highest percentage of neanderthal DNA for at least ten thousand years.

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        1. I feel very strongly about characterizing and criticizing someone based on their appearance. I can’t stand the damn idea. It’s lazy when the target has so much else going on that is a valid source of criticism like their ideas and beliefs.
        2. As more archaeological discoveries happen we understand that the Neanderthals were dramatically underestimated. They had art, culture, death rituals and all the rest. They weren’t just cousin’s. They were humans but just a little bit intolerant of the cold. Like office workers.
        3. I bet MTG is in the 95th percentile for Neanderthal DNA. You can just see it in their face and totally understand why that idiot cousin species went extinct. They just couldn’t compete with us.
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          There’s only two things in this life I hate: people intolerant of other cultures, and the Dutch.

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      Rome Georgia has more churches than houses. That is crazy country for religious nonsense too. My last apprentice from the auto body shop is from Rome. It is an odd place. She is typical for the kind of crazy in the area.

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    Philip Bump, a columnist at The Washington Post, reacted to the squabble on Bluesky, writing: “lol mtg is fighting with a computer about god.”