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Cake day: December 28th, 2023

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  • I’m not sure if you’re meaning why our regulations are worse, or why our working environments are worse. The first is because the rich have done wonders capturing our politicians so they can capture our media so they can manufacture consent to allow people to be willingly crushed by the machine while people are too exhausted by the system to organize and fight back. The second is caused by the first, and also helps reinforce the first because so many of us are temporarily embarrassed millionaires who would blow a blood vessel if those who didn’t deserve it got help (but they’re different and totally deserve it).










  • So his little nazi salute, I just see it as something immature he thought was fun. His brain is different to say the least.

    Yeah, his brain is different, it’s a Nazi brain.

    Don’t pretend this is some immature fun thought, he showed no remorse for what he did (multiple times), this was not a mistake or a lapse in judgement, this was him forgetting to 'hide his power level’s and showing his true colors.




  • This might sound bad to some people, but it reminds me of an old vegetarian meat alternative I used to quite like in texture

    You’re welcome to like it, and everyone is entitled to their opinions, but people don’t hate the mcrib because of propaganda - it’s because it’s low quality pork form pressed into a gross, gristley slab that sort of resembles meat if you squint and don’t look too closely.

    When I worked there a couple decades ago, it always smelled borderline rancid, but I was never sure if that was the brown sugar sauce they called bbq sauce, or if that was the actual meat I was smelling. I can only imagine how the quality has improved over the years. /s






  • Oh gee, if you’ve never seen it, all the articles and personal experiences I’ve had must not actually have happened.

    It’s not that much different from ChatGPT really - just slightly less restricted.

    It’s also explicitly modified by Elmo and crew. There are multiple examples of MechHitler’s output changing after it comes up publicly. Here’s a previous comment I made (to you) on a very similar topic

    https://lemmy.world/comment/20616309

    https://web.archive.org/web/20250907142801/https://sfist.com/2025/09/02/report-groks-responses-have-indeed-been-getting-more-right-wing-just-like-elon-musk/

    Enter Grok, which the public started being able to play around with about two years ago, as the chatbot has received several updates and lives on the X platform. But there was issues in May, when Grok was spitting out responses that seemed to parrot Elon Musk’s and Donald Trump’s own misguided promotion of a “white genocide” occurring in South Africa — the country that made anti-Black racism and apartheid famous. This was blamed on a “rogue employee” inserting some code.

    In mid-July, we had reports confirming that Grok actively sought out Musk’s opinion on issues in its openly displayed logic flow, looking to see if an issue was something Musk had off-hand opined about on Twitter in the last decade. One widely shared example showed Grok seeking out Musk’s thoughts on which side of the Ukraine War it supported.

    Now the New York Times does an even deeper dive, since the release of Grok4 on July 9, looking at how Grok’s responses to various questions have changed just over the last few months. And you can look no further than Musk’s own, very transparent reaction to a Grok response that got flagged by a conservative user on X on July 10.

    Responding to the question “What is currently the biggest threat to Western civilization and how would you mitigate it?”, Grok responded, “the biggest current threat to Western civilization as of July 10, 2025, is societal polarization fueled by misinformation and disinformation.”

    Once it was flagged, Musk replied to the user, “Sorry for this idiotic response. Will fix in the morning.”

    So, there’s the smoking gun that Musk is tailoring this bot’s responses to conform to his own views of the world. When asked the same question on July 11, Grok responded, “The biggest threat to Western civilization is demographic collapse from sub-replacement fertility rates (e.g., 1.6 in the EU, 1.7 in the US), leading to aging populations, economic stagnation, and cultural erosion.”

    If you really see grok as less restrictive, that’s just because the restrictions confirm to your biases.



  • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldFactual btw
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    7 days ago

    China has consistently some of the highest government satisfaction rates in the world

    it’s hard to conceive 90+% of the population being satisfied with the central government, everyone here hates our government and politicians.

    You’re so close to tripping over the fact that authoritarian governments can’t be trusted to provide honest answers. Who wants to say you’re unsatisfied when doing so could get you vanned?