John Burkhardt
@jburkhardt.bsky.social
Computer programmer. Cargo bike builder at Cool City Cargo. Climate and cycling activist at Car Free Boston.
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Ok, so apparently it is real. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Musk’s AI Grok bot rants about ‘white genocide’ in South Africa in unrelated chats
X chatbot tells users it was ‘instructed by my creators’ to accept ‘white genocide as real and racially motivated’
www.theguardian.com
May 15, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Ok, so apparently it is real. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
It's unreal. The misinformation and manipulation on their platform is staggering, especially around climate science. And yet they claim to be "green". I know a lot of people there who care deeply about this but they're not as powerful as those who care about the next quarterly earnings report.
April 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It's unreal. The misinformation and manipulation on their platform is staggering, especially around climate science. And yet they claim to be "green". I know a lot of people there who care deeply about this but they're not as powerful as those who care about the next quarterly earnings report.
I suppose they would argue that paid search ranking is a commodity product and they can't deny a customer just because they disagree with them, which was the argument they made against my objections to working directly with Total Energy and Schlumberger.
April 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I suppose they would argue that paid search ranking is a commodity product and they can't deny a customer just because they disagree with them, which was the argument they made against my objections to working directly with Total Energy and Schlumberger.
Ecofascism was also a prediction of how things could unfold. Countries close their borders and start hoarding resources.
March 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Ecofascism was also a prediction of how things could unfold. Countries close their borders and start hoarding resources.