I’m so glad that comedy is authorized once more on X.
That is in all probability not a information story, as such, however it’s a brand new performance inside an app tangentially linked to X, so it qualifies.
Final month, X proprietor Elon Musk, whereas trying to summon his Grok chatbot inside a submit stream for a fact-check, by chance typed in “@gork” as a substitute of “@grok.”
That error has now spawned its personal profile (@gork), which is seemingly a extra slow-witted model of Grok (and should or will not be run by Elon Musk himself).
Elon additionally modified his show title to “Gorklon Rust,” whereas X has additionally added Gork as a brand new voice inside Grok’s voice mode choices.
As you’ll be able to see on this instance, shared by app analysis Radu Oncescu, Gork is a “lazy male voice.”
So, hilarious, proper? A easy spelling error that’s now spawned its personal character, with Gork taking a extra Neanderthal strategy to queries.
Which is just about in keeping with Elon’s personal extra collegiate humorousness, whereas researchers have additionally discovered that X’s Grok chatbot will even convert photographs of ladies into “less-clothed” variations, one other seemingly acceptable use of the X’s AI instruments.
As reported by PC Magazine:
“Whereas the chatbot rejects prompts for utterly nude photographs, it does fulfill ‘take away her garments’ requests with AI-generated photographs of ladies in bikinis or lingerie. Grok’s responses are public and seem as replies to the unique prompts.”
That feels lower than authorized, or lower than moral. However once more, it does additionally align with Musk’s personal less-PC strategy to content material, which can be a part of his broader free speech push throughout the app.
I don’t know, it appears like a minor story, as famous, however it additionally feels prefer it represents one thing extra about Elon’s X undertaking, in symbolic phrases.
However then once more, when that is what Elon Musk considers comedy:
I suppose all of it is smart. And other people can select to take part or not.
