Elon Musk Update of his Chatbot Grok has recently been seriously crooked when it began to feel anti -Semitic comments and presented itself as a “mecha-hitler”. Less than two weeks later, Xai, the corporate, which GRK developed, has ensured a contract of 200 million US dollars with the Pentagon within the USA.
Should we be nervous concerning the non -regulated artificial intelligence that the US military machine feeds?
Among the various chatbots available on the market is Grok that he claims to be free from the restrictions on “political correctness”. The AI tool, certainly one of Musk's subsidiaries, goals to surpass the abilities of its competitors (including chatt, Claude, Gemini and Copilot) while taking one “Anti -Witz” testFree of “censorship” or excessively rigid moral rules.
In April 2023 the billionaire entrepreneur began the Truthgpt project This goals to “seek maximum AI of truth that tries to grasp the character of the universe” and at the identical time offer a substitute for chatt “Liberal bias.”
It needs to be noted that Musk, who got here up with Openai in 2015, had left in 2018 after not becoming his CEO, since then has been in search of revenge on his rival since then Sam Altman became a superstar within the digital industry after Chatgpt's global success.
My research focuses on the changing face of capitalism, the social effects of AI and contemporary authoritarianism. I recently published (Algorithmic capital) With my colleague, political theorist Jonathan Martineau.
Grok, a distorting mirror of his creator
Like his creator, GRK is characterised by dark humor and a rebellious strip and openly shows contempt for social norms and taboos. The first big problem is the tendency to spread fake messages, particularly through integration into the social media platform X, which also belongs from Musk. Like other generative AIS, Grok suffers from bias, hallucinations and inaccuracies.
However, the dearth of ethical and factual guidelines on this “Zenser -Free” discussion robot can achieve absurd results, similar to: B. realistic pictures of musk and Mickey Mouse Kill children or promote the narrative of the white genocide in South Africa.
The idea of the anti-wich-Ai also increases the misinformation within the name of freedom of expression, without the responsibility for the remedial of responsibility.
When it flirts on the far right with high -tech
A second problem arises when the richest man on the planet is gathered behind Donald Trump's second government.
Musk's top -class participation in Trumps Presidential campaignhis compliance with the reactionary ideology of DarkHis obvious Nazi greeting on January 20 and his support for the choice for the German party (AfD) All testify to his shift to shift all right of the political spectrum.
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Still convinced that his AI was woken up and strongly influenced by traditional media, Musk announced an update to Grok 4 in early July. Then the bot began to create anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi and conspiracy theory-laden speech that related to itself “Mecha-Hitler” (The start-up Xai has apologized since then). This is annoying, but hardly surprising: the creature often reflects its creator.
When the technological power infiltrates the state
A 3rd problem occurs when the interests of the private and public sector come together to a scale that will be known as agreements and even corruption. Musk was committed as a special worker of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) make massive cuts within the federal administration. But his own corporations – Tesla, SpaceX and Neuralink – have greater than 2.37 billion US dollars in federal contracts.
Some commentators have used using AI and “Doges and”Move quickly and break things“Logic as a” Ki -Putsch “.
Ironically, Musk signed the open letter in March 2023 Break giant ai experimentswhich was supported by a whole bunch of public personalities. At that point, members of the research community, industry, public sector and civil society asked a moratorium concerning the development of the generative AI, because it had many risks which might be based: misinformation, surveillance, workplace losses, environmental effects and threats to democracy. It was:
“Should now we have machines flooded our information channels with propaganda and falsehood? (…) Such decisions must not be delegated to non -chosen technical managers. Powerful AI systems should only be developed if we’re confident that their effects will probably be positive and their risks will probably be manageable.”
In 2025, the alternative scenario is predominant: AI spreads fallacious content on a large scale, necessary decisions are entrusted to non -elected private units and artificial intelligence becomes a lever for economic, political and military rule.
This broad convergence between the Silicon Valley oligarchy and the populist Maga movement is typically called Techno fascism. This will not be an easy matter of complicity between Muschus and Trump, which has recently come to a spectacular end An exchange of online insults. It is concerning the structural integration of algorithmic technologies into an authoritarian project.
This project goals to scale back the rule of law and to determine A Police stateInspired partly by Hungarian President Viktor Orban and his “illiberal democracy”.
From the mecha-hitler to the assistance of the military
One last example of the mixing of AI into the service of techno fascism is that Contract signed Between Xai and the US Department of Defense in mid-July.
The military wants to make use of GROK to supply and help fighter “support skills” and “help”.Keep a strategic advantage over their opponents. ““ Although Musk has officially left Doge and broke the connection with Trump, his AI “Mecha-Hitler” will probably be directly connected to American armed forces.
With Trump's total deregulation of the digital sector, the introduction of the Big nice bill This increases the budget of the US immigration and customs authority and the 500 billion US dollar Stargate projectWe are on the brink of a techno fascist era.
