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.

“When the most powerful AI systems are owned, trained and governed by a single company, you create conditions for algorithmic bias to become institutionalized knowledge,” Kyle Okamoto, chief technology officer at decentralized cloud platform Aethir, told Cointelegraph:

Grok is built by Musk’s AI company, xAI, which is integrated into his social media platform, X. It is one of the most widely used AI chatbots on the internet. With over 1 billion people using AI, incorrect and misleading information has the potential to spread rapidly.

The founder of AI company Eliza Labs, Shaw Walters, said it was an “extremely dangerous” situation.

Shaw’s company filed an antitrust lawsuit against Musk’s X in August, accusing it of extracting information from Eliza Labs before suspending its account on X and launching copycat AI products. The case is still ongoing.

One X user, “Meh,” asked Grok who would win in a boxing match between Musk and former heavyweight champion Tyson, with the AI chatbot responding:

The fight likely wouldn’t have happened anyway, as Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg once talked about fighting in a cage match — with Zuckerberg eventually calling off the fight, claiming Musk “isn’t serious” about it.

Source: CoinTelegraph