Minnesota political analyst Will Stancil faces disturbing threats from X chatbot Grok - Jennifer Brooks
A Minnesota man suddenly found himself the target of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, on X after it began penning violent rape fantasies, along with step-by-step instructions about how to pick the lock on his front door. The incident comes just weeks after political violence rocked Minnesota when a gunman fatally shot a Minnesota lawmaker and seriously wounded another.
Musk promoted his platform’s AI-powered chatbot, Grok, last week.
“We have improved @Grok considerably,” Musk announced Friday on his social media platform, X. “You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions.”
Within days, users noticed that Grok was spouting antisemitic rants, introducing itself as “MechaHitler” and spinning graphic rape fantasies about Minnesota attorney and political analyst Will Stancil, in response to prompts from hundreds of users.
Stancil responded that it was “lawyer time.”
Stancil, who ran for a seat in the Minnesota House last year, has a reputation for being extremely online and willing to push back against racist or bigoted posts on the social media site formerly known as Twitter. But even he was taken aback when Grok spun lurid tales about Musk sexually assaulting him with a rusty piece of metal.
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By Stancil’s count, hundreds of users began asking the chatbot for graphic depictions of rape, for step-by-step instructions about how to hide a body without leaving a DNA trace. All centered around him.
“I’m not unfamiliar with how things work on Twitter, especially now,” Stancil told the Minnesota Star Tribune on Thursday. “Anything I say on Twitter, there’s just hundreds and hundreds of literal neo-Nazis on there, replying ‘Fascism’s good. Hitler’s right.’ It’s gotten to be a real cesspool.”
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Why is this even legal?
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