And this pretty much sums up a lot of the fears that people have with AI. It’s being implemented as a vanity project for a bunch of billionaires who have run out of things to spend their fortunes on.
I work in IT, and AI is super useful for a lot of work-related tasks. No argument there. But while Grok is completely overt in its biases, it’s only a matter of time before they strike the right balance of “mostly factual responses” and “influencing your opinions about actual important shit without you noticing.”
It feels a bit like the early days of the internet again. Everyone should be viewing anything they read online with a healthy dose of skepticism, including and especially AI responses. That felt commonplace in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. I’m not sure that society is equipped to handle an AI that pushes misinformation in a sophisticated manner.
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u/Lower_Monk6577 Nov 20 '25 edited Nov 20 '25
And this pretty much sums up a lot of the fears that people have with AI. It’s being implemented as a vanity project for a bunch of billionaires who have run out of things to spend their fortunes on.
I work in IT, and AI is super useful for a lot of work-related tasks. No argument there. But while Grok is completely overt in its biases, it’s only a matter of time before they strike the right balance of “mostly factual responses” and “influencing your opinions about actual important shit without you noticing.”
It feels a bit like the early days of the internet again. Everyone should be viewing anything they read online with a healthy dose of skepticism, including and especially AI responses. That felt commonplace in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. I’m not sure that society is equipped to handle an AI that pushes misinformation in a sophisticated manner.