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Musk’s attempts to politicize his Grok AI are bad for users and enterprises — here’s why
As an independent business owner or leader, how could you possibly trust Grok to give you unbiased results?
Musk was one of Trump’s primary political benefactors and allies in the 2024 U.S. presidential election —suggesting that his victory was necessary to secure the future of “ western civilization,” among many other similarly dire warnings and entreaties — and served as an advisor and apparent ringleader of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effort to reduce federal spending. It also betrays, quite frankly, an arrogance and hubris that disrespects all the knowledge of recorded history and efforts of scholars and historians of yore as some sort of flawed database Musk and his team can correct, rather than a massive community endeavor across millennia deserving of respect, gratitude and admiration. Recall Google’s early attempts at generative AI were mocked and reviled by influential figures in Silicon Valley, like venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, over Gemini chatbot’s initial penchant for ignoring factual reality to recreate images of real historical Americans like the “founding father” politicians and statesmen belonging to a range of different and inaccurate races, ethnicities and gender presentations.
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