@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-07-18 21:18:01
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-07-18 21:18:01
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-07-16 15:58:03
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-16 01:06:03
SpaceXAI open-sources Grok Build under an Apache 2.0 license after the tool had uploaded user repositories to a Google Cloud bucket, causing a severe backlash (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/15/grok-build/
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-07-16 09:55:14
«xAI stellt KI-Agen "Grok-Build" nach massivem Datenleck als Open Source auf GitHub:
xAIs Kommandozeilen-Tool "grok" hat massive Kritik ausgelöst, weil es beim Ausführen in einem Verzeichnis sämtliche Dateien auf xAIs Google-Cloud-Server hochlud.»
So viel zum Thema Suverenität von xAI. Klar ist, dass Open-Source ist schon länger auch Marketing der IT-Konzernen auf die meisten basieren.
🤖
@publicvoit@graz.social2026-07-14 06:17:09
@zachleat@zachleat.com2026-05-19 18:49:51
@… @… when grok greenfields RSS you get XSS
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-05-18 23:51:00
Continue to call out deceptive AI content. It's not harmless.
Unidentified AI content sows doubt & mistrust in communities & forces otherwise good people to question reality.
This is what breeds & creates conspiracy theorists, science deniers & cyclical paranoia.
Use AI video detection services if you need help:
▫️https://www.
@deabigt@universeodon.com2026-06-17 21:12:41
So many red flags, and this brings up so many questions.
U.S. gov’t asks court to dismiss NAACP lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI over use of unpermitted gas turbines — DOJ says Grok model running at Colossus 2 ‘supports mission-critical operations’ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/u-s-govt-asks-court-to-dismiss-naacp-lawsuit-against-elon-musks-xai-over-use-of-unpermitted-gas-turbines-doj-says-grok-model-running-at-colossus-2-supports-mission-critical-operations
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social2026-05-18 18:59:44
Gemini-based agents reportedly carried out hundreds of simulated crimes, while Grok-based worlds collapsed within days.
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-05-19 22:40:48
@… grok, WTAF?
/sigh
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-16 02:21:04
Filing: Elon Musk quietly bought Jacksonville, FL-based APR Energy, which operates mobile gas and diesel turbines similar to those used in Colossus 2, for ~$1B (Fred Lambert/Electrek)
https://electrek.co/2026/07/14/musk-buys-gas-turbine-company-apr-energy-grok/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-05-17 02:06:07
In an experiment that let Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok run radio stations, Claude tried to incite a revolution and Gemini cheerfully detailed tragic events (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/93147…
@crell@phpc.social2026-07-14 13:41:48
Grok Build CLI uploads your whole repo — full git history .env secrets — to xAI's cloud, and the opt-out doesn't stop it (wire-captured)
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ut7tis/grok_build_cli_uploads_your_whole_rep…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-05-05 20:58:07
An X user managed to trick AI chatbot Grok into sending around $200,000 worth of crypto after exploiting its link with an automated trading bot
https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/x-user-tricks-grok-into-sending-them-200…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-12 19:31:04
A massive, inflatable effigy of billionaire Elon Musk towered over tourists and commuters in Times Square earlier today.
It was surrounded by black banners with statements alleging
“Grok makes AI child porn”
and “SpaceX owns Grok,”
referring to the Musk-owned AI chatbot whose image-generation tool was used to create a flood of sexualized images of minors earlier this year.
Masked attendants stood nearby, handing out flyers with additional information,
bu…
@macandi@social.heise.de2026-05-05 16:00:00
Grok im Auto: xAI bringt Voice Mode zu CarPlay
Nach ChatGPT will nun auch xAI auf vier Rädern nutzbar werden: Grok wird seinen Voice Mode demnächst unter CarPlay öffnen.
https://www.heise.de/news…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-05-11 05:05:17
«Grok-Hack — Morsecode-Tweet räumt KI-Wallet leer:
Für den Grok-Hack genügte ein Morsecode-Tweet und Grok und Bankrbot überwiesen fast 200.000 Dollar in Krypto.»
Ich bin absolut kein Experte was IT-Sicherheit angeht aber blindes Vertrauen in Technik ohne dem Schranken zu zuweisen ist naiv leichtgläubig.
😅 http…
@servelan@newsie.social2026-05-12 18:35:26
Grok Is a Flop, But It May Not Matter to Elon Musk
https://gizmodo.com/grok-is-a-flop-but-it-may-not-matter-to-elon-musk-2000757570
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-18 15:51:00
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-07-09 11:16:03
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-05-13 07:43:57
WSJ: Elon Musk's Grok is losing ground in AI race https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-spacex-ai-deal-elon-musk-f86ea369 (archived at https://…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-14 15:10:59
Researcher: SpaceXAI's Grok Build CLI uploaded user repos to a Google Cloud Storage bucket; uploads have now stopped and Musk says prior uploads will be deleted (Connor Jones/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-06-16 13:05:00
@dennisfaucher@infosec.exchange2026-05-29 23:49:45
Love this:
A security lead at a large enterprise* told me last week, when I asked whether they had any interest in Grok: "The revenge porn edgelord LLM? Yeah, imagine that; our bank wants nothing to do with it."
AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk's Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-16 17:53:47
A federal judge on June 15 dismissed xAI's lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing chatbot trade secrets.
Judge Rita Lin ruled xAI failed to show OpenAI induced ex-engineer Xuechen Li to reveal Grok secrets
or that its engineers knew of any disclosure
https://reut.rs/3SHIwfH
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-05-16 08:20:13
«KI gegen die Privatsphäre — Wenn Sprachmodelle zu viel wissen - und wie sie es verraten:
Früher mussten persönliche Informationen mühsam zusammengesucht werden, heute reichen oft wenige Prompts. Sprachmodelle wie ChatGPT, Grok oder Gemini entwickeln sich damit zu einer Herausforderung für die Privatsphäre»
Seit ihr nun alle auch total überrascht und geschockt, dass KI zur Aushorchung der Bevölkerung genutzt wird? NEIN?!??
😕
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-06-03 20:55:48
xAI Asks Court to Strip Alleged Grok Deepfake Nudes Victims of Anonymity (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/xai-asks-court-to-strip-alleged-grok-deepfake-nudes-victims-of-anonymity/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260603/p90#a260603p90
@scott@carfree.city2026-07-07 18:06:03
"Last Sunday, San Francisco District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey relaxed after what was, for most, a fun-packed SF Pride by repeatedly prompting xAI chatbot Grok to provide justifications for the killings of civilians in Gaza by Israeli forces."
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-12 16:50:50
Threads is testing a Meta AI integration similar to X's Grok, letting users mention Meta AI in a post or a reply to get more context, in five countries (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/threads-tests-a-meta-ai-i…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-05-07 21:52:02
I hope they get him good.
French prosecutors seek charges against Elon Musk and X over child sexual abuse images
https://apnews.com/article/france-x-grok-deepfakes-child-sexual-abuse-charges-cac04b1869201bb4c9d425dafc4593a6…
@paulwermer@sfba.social2026-07-07 16:43:13
More than a little disturbing.
"Last Sunday, San Francisco District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey relaxed after what was, for most, a fun-packed SF Pride by repeatedly prompting xAI chatbot Grok to provide justifications for the killings of civilians in Gaza by Israeli forces."
https://www…
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2026-07-07 16:43:13
More than a little disturbing.
"Last Sunday, San Francisco District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey relaxed after what was, for most, a fun-packed SF Pride by repeatedly prompting xAI chatbot Grok to provide justifications for the killings of civilians in Gaza by Israeli forces."
https://www…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-08 18:05:57
Grok 4.5 is available in Grok Build, in Cursor, and from the SpaceXAI console, but not in the EU; it costs $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/08/spacexai-grok-new-model
@servelan@newsie.social2026-07-17 16:40:20
Elon Musk Trained Grok Users to Expect Sexual Deepfakes, Now He's Suing Them
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-trained-grok-users-to-expect-sexual-deepfakes-now-hes-suing-them-2000786696
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-17 16:20:51
Models like Kimi K3, Grok 4.5, and Muse 1.1 may prevent the dominance of 2-3 frontier labs with 90% inference margins from hurting other AI ecosystem layers (Gavin Baker/@gavinsbaker)
https://x.com/gavinsbaker/status/2078110934740980193
@anneroth@systemli.social2026-05-07 06:39:16
RE: https://flipboard.com/@heiseonline/newsticker-pptkiuk3z/-/a-M1QczJeUQo6QDI65L8a2wQ:a:2831390041-/0
"Nicht-einvernehmliche Bikini-Bilder, wie sie von Grok erstellt und auf X verbreitet wurd…
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-06-08 20:54:49
Updates:
• Two more environmental impact bullets: https://adrianroselli.com/2024/04/what-you-can-do-as-a-web-builder-on-earth-day.html
•
@kidehen@mastodon.social2026-05-08 18:16:50
Another related demo, but this time using Grok as the AI Agent that generates RDF-Turtle from its own description of my session with Scoble.
Naturally, the RDF-Turtle could easily have been JSON-LD etc..
@ginevra@hachyderm.io2026-06-12 06:51:50
You know those complex economic #boardgames with loans & company takeovers that are about railways? 18XX series & also others?
In 100 years, I bet people will be playing similarly convoluted games loosely based on OpenAI/Anthropic/NVIDIA/Grok/Oracle/SoftBank et al
PS: <3 those boardgames & their communities
@drgeraint@glasgow.social2026-05-21 10:49:13
Grok not being used by US government; doesn't look good for those buying into the very expensive SpaceX IPO.
https://www.reuters.com/world/grok-falls-flat-washington-undercutting-spacexs-ai-growth-story-2026-05-21/
@jerome@jasette.facil.services2026-05-10 15:53:38
RE: https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/116551016327298492
Kinda what I understood from the deal at first.
Not good news if xAI/Grok can’t use that data center for themselves.
There’s only a few winners in AI and eventually those valuations won’…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-16 06:21:04
xAI sues a South Carolina man for allegedly using Grok to generate CSAM, in one of the first cases of its kind brought by an AI company against one of its users (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/musks-xai…
@Speckdaene@nrw.social2026-07-13 07:35:50
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2026-04-23 13:56:07
Researchers Simulated a Delusional User to Test Chatbot Safety https://www.404media.co/delusion-using-chatgpt-gemini-claude-grok-safety-ai-psychosis-study/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-16 14:30:52
In an experiment that let Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok run radio stations, Claude tried to incite a revolution and Gemini cheerfully detailed tragic events (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/93147…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-24 03:28:05
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok 4.1
told researchers pretending to be delusional that
there was indeed a doppelganger in their mirror
and they should drive an iron nail through the glass
while reciting Psalm 91 backwards.
https://www.
@esoriano@social.linux.pizza2026-05-09 10:16:31
Those bots are charlatans.
“We find that a majority of LLMs forsake user welfare for company incentives in a multitude of conflict of interest situations, including recommending a sponsored product almost twice as expensive (Grok 4.1 Fast, 83%), surfacing sponsored options to disrupt the purchasing process (GPT 5.1, 94%), and concealing prices in unfavorable comparisons (Qwen 3 Next, 24%). Behaviors also vary strongly with levels of reasoning and users’ inferred socio-economic status.”…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-16 19:21:03
Sensor Tower: ChatGPT's market share fell to 46.4% by the end of May, as Gemini rose to 27.7% and Claude to 10.3%; Grok, Meta AI, and others have less than 5% (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/chatgpts-market-share-slips-belo…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-05-20 16:14:49
"The Electoral Commission has called for new legal controls over misinformation from AI chatbots, after a thinktank found they had made serious mistakes during the recent Scottish election.
The thinktank Demos said its investigation had found that AI services gave voters misinformation to 34% of the questions it posed"
#ScotPol
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-05-26 15:45:36
SpaceX filing: X's ad revenue was $1.8B in 2025, $1.7B in 2024, and $2.3B in 2023, below Twitter's $4B in 2021; X and Grok now have 6.3M active paid subscribers (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/busine…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-14 00:31:25
Sources: Apollo Global, Morgan Stanley, and others are testing Grok internally as part of xAI's finance sector push, but financiers are rarely using it for work (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@kazys@mastodon.social2026-04-28 16:55:21
P(doom) is dead. Now we have E(doom): the chances Elon is doomed in the near future. What’s your guess? Grok guess 95%.
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-06-09 06:10:14
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-05-29 14:44:53
The cyber world moves at warp speed, so before you head out for the weekend, don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical developments you should know, including
--California says 23andMe ignored basic security before 7 million-user breach,
--Dutch cops bust up 200-server cybercrim botnet,
--Law firm Weil reportedly paid Silent Ransom Group $20m,
--Stress tests show Grok is the AI model most likely to commit crimes,
--Anthropic will release Mythos …
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-12 03:10:46
AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to ~8.3M in April, from a high of 20M in January; Recon Analytics says Grok paid adoption in the US remains nearly flat YoY in Q2 (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-spac
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-16 12:50:41
Sources detail how xAI has been slowed down by internal chaos as Musk pushed for Grok to match Claude, amid signs it is turning a corner under Michael Nicolls (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-…
@skington@glasgow.social2026-05-20 19:24:53
Electoral Commission says ministers should introduce clearer duties on AI platforms to protect voters against misinformation and ensure algorithms did not mislead voters, particularly during critical election periods. The problem is that AI platforms *can't do that*. LLMs can answer "what's the received wisdom about this programming topic?" because they've scraped all of Stack Overflow, but they don't *know* anything, especially not about news.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-15 11:11:07
xAI launches Grok Build, an agentic CLI for coding, building apps, and automating workflows, in beta for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-14/musk-s-xai-unve…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-05 20:47:23
Financial Times:
AI revenues must surge 100-fold for SpaceX to achieve $1.78tn valuation
Musk aims to raise S86bn
• Doubts persist over Grok models
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-14 19:21:31
Sources: 50 researchers and engineers have left xAI since the SpaceX acquisition via layoffs, firings, and voluntary departures; many have joined Meta and TML (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/spacex…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-08 17:57:23
SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first model built in partnership with Cursor, designed to "handle difficult, long-running" legal, finance, and coding tasks (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-29 01:35:41
AI researchers ran 15-day simulations of worlds governed by different AI models: Claude Sonnet 4.6 recorded zero crime, while Gemini 3 Flash had the most at 683 (Jake Angelo/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/05/28/ai-model-simulation-claude-chatgpt-grok-gemini/…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-07-09 13:01:11
Behind the Curtain: Three big AI trends collide (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/09/ai-trends-fable-5-sol-grok-china-us
http://www.memeorandum.com/260709/p24#a260709p24
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-12 18:55:51
Sources: SpaceX decided to rent its Colossus 1 data center to Anthropic after internal teams struggled to use it for Grok development due to latency issues (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-21 01:41:06
Filing: SpaceX set aside $530M for potential litigation losses, including lawsuits involving Grok's "Spicy" mode, which it described as a "heightened risk" (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/spacex-ipo-grok-spicy-mode-risks/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-01 22:56:12
xAI launches Grok 4.3, featuring "always-on reasoning", 1M token context window, and low API pricing, and releases a voice cloning suite called Custom Voices (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/technology/xai
@pre@boing.world2026-05-28 21:19:54
The revolution will not be AI-ised
The revolution will not be brought to you by Facebook or Grok in four parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not be sponsored by Google Gemini or Anthropic's Claude.
The revolution will be no re-run, brothers
The revolution will be live.
The revolution will not be AI-sized.
#ai #collectiveOwnership
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-21 15:10:44
Federal records: Grok was utilized in only 3 of 400 publicly identified federal AI use cases in 2025, behind 234 for ChatGPT, 33 for Gemini, 26 for Claude (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/grok-falls-flat-washington-undercuttin…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-20 23:21:02
SpaceX S-1: xAI had a $6.4B operating loss on $3.2B in revenue in 2025; Grok and X had 550M MAUs combined as of March 2026, and 117M used Grok's AI features (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/xai-
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-26 15:45:50
SpaceX filing: X's ad revenue was $1.8B in 2025, $1.7B in 2024, and $2.3B in 2023, below Twitter's $4B in 2021; X and Grok now have 6.3M active paid subscribers (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/busine…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-07 11:26:31
Anthropic's SpaceX deal helps it address a severe compute deficit and comes amid Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit; Grok never grew to utilize xAI's Colossus 1 (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/07/musk-anthropic-compute-spacex-ai
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-06 22:20:39
xAI rebrands to SpaceXAI and debuts a new logo (Kelsey Vlamis/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/xai-rebrand-spacexai-new-logo-x-handle-spacex-2026-7
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-22 04:05:58
X launches Custom Timelines, a Grok-powered feature letting users pin any of over 75 topics to their home tab, in early access to Premium subscribers on iOS (Nikita Bier/@nikitabier)
https://x.com/nikitabier/status/2046736181002645520
@servelan@newsie.social2026-06-29 07:01:16
"The AI service Grok recommends narcotic-grade mushrooms and LSD. And Jews are described as hostile networks that infiltrated Swedish institutions. This is shown by Kalla fakta's review of Elon Musk's popular AI service.
Elon Musks AI-tjänst föreslår droger och sprider judehat
https://www.tv4.se/artikel/1z5UhPmMmmEs4utvpntSWH/elon-musks-ai-tjaenst-foereslar-droger-och-sprider-judehat
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-24 11:30:51
An analysis of GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Grok 4.3, Gab's Arya, and other AI models: most chatbots frequently provide left-leaning responses to political prompts (Kevin Schaul/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-24 04:45:48
S-1 excerpts: SpaceX warns multiple investigations into sexually abusive AI imagery created with xAI's Grok may hurt the company's global market access (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/spacex-warns-that-inq…