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Twitter AI Trending Tab Believes NBA Klay Thompson Is Throwing Bricks at Houses

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For people who are confused, NBA fans use "shooting bricks" or "throwing bricks" as an euphemism for a terrible scoring performance. It seems like Grok saw these live tweets and couldn't understand the context, resulting in this truly bizarre trending story accusing him of vandalizing Sacramento.

We live in wild times.

I'm guessing that "at the window" used in describing Klay throwing up bricks ("the window" being a euphemism for the backboard)?

It does highlight the challenge with teaching euphemism to computers; it will be impressive if computers can keep pace with the evolution of euphemisms faster than parents of teenagers -- I a resource more reliable than Urban Dictionary to look up what phrases mean these days.

Thank you, that was badly needed context for those of us who've never heard that euphemism before.

After a bad shooting night in an elimination game between NBA teams Sacramento Kings and Golden State Warriors, Klay Thompson did not score a single point. This led to an outpouring of comments about all the bricks he put up. AI interpreted it a little different.

Mirror:

Klay Thompson Accused in Bizarre Brick-Vandalism Spree

In a bizarre turn of events, NBA star Klay Thompson has been accused of vandalizing multiple houses with bricks in Sacramento. Authorities are investigating the claims after several individuals reported their houses being damaged, with windows shattered by bricks. Klay Thompson has not yet issued a statement regarding the accusations. The incidents have left the community shaken, but no injuries were reported. The motive behind the alleged vandalism remains unclear.

image: https://imgur.com/a/uk0dNv3

It’s far more than an innocent hallucination. It manufactured news propaganda. Statements like “has been accused”, “authorities are investigating”, “houses being damaged” would be sourced if it were by journalistic standards.

X ai weights and biases have gone Elon-mode.

It actually gets even worse: https://infosec.exchange/@bontchev/112257849039442072

I'm not sure what you mean - this link is about a different AI built by a different company. I'd also encourage you to not to give much weight to a social media screenshot attributed only to "somebody".

The point is that the space of unhinged LLMs gets worse than this one, somehow. And this one was reproduced by others, per the comments.

Most of everything we know is based on things we've heard second or third hand. We tend not to realize this consciously, or that we only choose to be skeptical at certain times based on our values.

Fake trending crime stories based on misinterpreted viral trends - and the content remains posted for over 5 hours despite being immediately recognizable fake news.

Yeah, it's easy to write this off as "haha AI being AI", but this is content posted as top trending news on the front page of one of the most visited websites in the world, one which is probably the primary news source of hundreds of millions of people. Today it is a mostly harmless sports article, tomorrow it will be about elections, geopolitics, social issues and everything else. If you were complaining about unreliable social media, watch it go on steroids in the coming years.

Elon, a free speech absolutist, who also believes that AI will be hyper intelligent in the very near future, probably doesn't want to infringe on the potentially sentient AI's free speech. Or he simply doesn't care about the truth and has understaffed Twitter to the point that there is no one available to handle these issues.

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