Elon Musk and his Twitter (X platform) engineers have an Artificial Intelligence (AI) user engagement and information system known as Grok. Essentially, you can ask AI Grok questions, and it provides responses based on the coded values of the engineers who built it.
Recently people have noticed a change on the Twitter (X) platform as Elon Musk announced the algorithm was being modified by his team. So, people started to engage with Grok and ask questions about their user account, the status changes evident from the algorithmic modifications, and the AI learning that is coded by Musk’s engineers. Essentially, asking the Grok AI: “How do you perceive me (through my content)?”
The responses from the xAI Grok system are starting to alarm everyone.
.…”These posts might be subject to reduced reach because they could be perceived as promoting skepticism, conspiracy, or negativity towards individuals, institutions, or the media. However, without direct insight into X’s algorithms or specific feedback from X, these are speculative based on general platform behavior towards negative content. Remember, platforms often aim to reduce the visibility of posts that could lead to misinformation, harassment, or a negative user experience.”….
When asked how to avoid the Twitter platform diminishing their user voice, a typical response from Grok:
“Don’t criticize your government, don’t criticize foreign governments, don’t talk about conspiracy theories, stop telling people to fuck off in the comments, and don’t accuse government officials or members of the media of malfeasance or dishonesty.”
These are the parameters built by Elon Musk and his Twitter engineers.
This is what controls the ‘reach of speech’ on the platform. Now, it would be simply funny but there are serious layers that must be discussed here.
First, this is how Elon Musk, the demigod free speech advocate, is structuring the algorithm within his Twitter (X) platform. These are his coded values as displayed by the engineers he has hired. Musks engineers transcribe his goals into code and implant it within the algorithm that controls the site content and restricts or enlarges the influence of the users.
Read this again. …”Don’t criticize your government, don’t criticize foreign governments, don’t talk about conspiracy theories, … and don’t accuse government officials or members of the media of malfeasance or dishonesty.” What does that sound like?
Many people will disregard this and simply shake it away saying, ‘it’s just some stupid social media platform, who cares.’ Let me tell you why it matters.
These same coded values are being created by the same tech engineers who are currently building out the surveillance state technological interface with government. This same perspective, what Palantir CEO Alex Karp described as “coded values,” is being written into the code within Palantir facial recognition and targeting software. The U.S. Government has already signed billions in contracts with Palantir (Peter Thiel) for these AI products.
Take your “REAL ID” as required by the United States Government (Passport or Driver’s License compatible), now overlay your identity as facially recognized by the tech system around your identity and connect it all to the metadata of your digital life that you leave as a fingerprint within every interaction with technology, and finally add in the coded values that will determine your “liberty status” or what might be called your social credit score (China version). Now do you see the problem?
Larry Ellison: […] But this is only the start of our surveillance dystopia, according to Larry Ellison, the billionaire cofounder of Oracle. He said AI will usher in a new era of surveillance that he gleefully said will ensure “citizens will be on their best behavior.”
Ellison made the comments as he spoke to investors earlier this week during an Oracle financial analysts meeting, where he shared his thoughts on the future of AI-powered surveillance tools.
Ellison said AI would be used in the future to constantly watch and analyze vast surveillance systems, like security cameras, police body cameras, doorbell cameras, and vehicle dashboard cameras.
“We’re going to have supervision,” Ellison said. “Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there’s a problem, AI will report that problem and report it to the appropriate person. Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.” (more)
What we are witnessing evolve on Twitter, are the original imprints of how the Silicon Valley artificial intelligence products will engage in your life. This is the core “coded values” part of the AI assembly. Larry Ellison, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Vivek Ramaswamy, JD Vance are all part of the technological network building this system for influence and affluence.
These same actors are about to take their AI enhancements into the largest database ever created and stored in human history, through DOGE. The databases of the U.S Government and NSA hold an astronomical scale of American data. Imagine the computer learning possible by allowing AI to analyze that level of data scale.
The debate about “coded values” on Twitter is only the tip of the iceberg.
So does PT know of these intentions/connections? Maybe PT draws them in with the intention of being a step ahead or PT lets them have fee reign because of the importance of the US being on top of AI. Either way I hope he outsmarts this group and puts citizens first. Scary stuff. We must get very loud about this.
This article is very alarming.
I’m surprised that people are calling Sundance an alarmist.
My experience with “X”:
I was kicked off/banned from it for 3 comments. I NEVER tweeted on Twitter. Never “joined” or bothered. Just watched from afar. But decided to try this “new free speech” X! And exactly what is not allowed I can now see “I crossed their line”!
I have heard recently that this particular person (&I believe he has a brother) has a last name of something like “Kasserstein”. I understand he’s paid to promote the Left’s lies. So he was spouting the lie about J6 & mentioned Nancy Pelosi. I just got so tired of this lie & responded that Nancy Pelosi is a liar. (Which she is). Maybe I should have put “allegedly”?? But why? It’s true & this is a free speech platform. Nope. Strike #1.
Also – as an aside – will X reinstate me when all the lies she’s told were in fact lies? Hmm.
Strike #2: There was a photo of a large woman breastfeeding her infant & bragging (with comments cheering her on, or maybe I should say, cheering him on?) that they were in the middle of transitioning into being a male. Thus insinuating that she, now being “a male” could breast feed.
All I’m thinking of is all the medical guidelines for pregnant women are to not smoke or drink wine(or alcohol). In other words, all these negative things you are putting into your body should stop for the health of the baby & later your breast milk.
Sooo! Oh no!! I bring up the fact that this selfish person (yes, I called her/him selfish = thinking only of themselves) is basically putting in whatever drugs she/he is taking to transition is now going into a newborn. OMG!
But OH NO!! X had to give me another STRIKE! #2
I forget Strike #3. So small I can’t even remember.
Oh yes, I got to review my remarks “to defend them” or was it to change them? Since I never commented before that time, not bothering to comment anymore was fine with me.
So, not only am I banned from commenting, I am limited from viewing! When people send me things, I may be able to see 3 items. The “my Rate Limit” has expired. I can come back – in a few days. But I can BUY my way in, I guess.
So this “Free Speech” thing didn’t work for me.
Lastly, this is only for those who understand the prophetic: It had been prophecied by a few true prophets, that God is going to DESTROY AI. If God knows it’s evil, then we should be aware, also.
Everyone concerned with free speech should check out a platform called NOSTR. It is totally decentralized and resistant to censorship. I suggest downloading the Primal app and spinning up public and private identity keys to begin learning about the best tool to save free speech. As the threat to free speech caused by the public centralized platforms becomes apparent to all, more and more people will find NOSTR.
We can also go analog and real life communication at the local eateries and drinking holes like we used to.
How novel, humans actually communicating through verbal voice physically in same room…Prehistoric behavior. src too close for comfort~
I had to modify my unapproved comment just to log back in and cancel my account.
We had to witness people being misled by Big Pharma and Fauci about the safety of the experimental vaccines and the way Twitter prevented alarming medical research and sound advice getting out to the public by reputable physicians and researchers. Now many people are paying the price for the sometimes catastrophic result of this and many have lost loved ones as a result of sudden death following a vaccine or fatal condition that ensued. Many people are permanently disabled or suffering from a chronic medical condition now as a result.
IMO the same is happening re the use of these “transition drugs” on our children. There are $$ millions to be made and Big Pharma and their stockholders run our government, our media, and platforms like X. It is a public health disaster waiting to happen.
And precisely why I NEVER even thought about using X, and now certainly will never.
If you tell AI to delete itself, what happens, does the internet DEI along with it. Too much computer crap and too many people trying to tell you what to think and how to live your life and spying on your business via the web. Its not healthy, take it out and kill it.
I am shadowbanned after about 2 months of posts.
Todd Starnes has been blowing the whistle about upcoming censorship on X. He shared this meme that’s been seen recently on X, so I typed it out to share it here.
“Elon Musk, owner of the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), has announced an upcoming change to the platform’s algorithm. This tweak aims to penalize ‘negativity’ while promoting content that is ‘informational and entertaining. Musk’s goal is to enhance user experience by increasing what he refers to as ‘ungretted user-seconds.’ Critics argue that these changes might limit free speech, suggesting that X is moving away from its role as an open forum for all types of expression, while supporters believe it could it cold improve the overall positivity on the platorm.”
That statement was followed by this caveat: This story is a summary of posts on X and may evolve over time. Grok can make mistakes, verify its outputs.
Make of this what you will… Todd will be staying on top of this. In fact, he suggested a workaround: “Under Elon’s new positivity rules, a smiley face emoji could be a workaround to avoiding punishment for posting negative content. For example: “What kind of a moron doesn’t know the pledge of allegiance? #Kamala 🙂 “
IMO Musk’s “saving Twitter” for free speech is a lot of hype. It’s true that comments about topics like the pandemic vaccines and election fraud were suddenly allowed to appear without the individual’s account being suspended after Musk purchased the platform, and the vicious troll attacks against conservatives decreased. However, conservative users have all along complained of their accounts continuing to be shadow-banned and sudden, massive numbers of their followers disappearing at regular intervals. This is not just for the big accounts but even the small ones.
Myself, after I criticized the FBI’s and Secret Service’s handling of Trump Assassination Attempt #1 in July, the feature of being able to reply to tweets, or post tweets of my own was immediately disabled. All I can do now is repost or quote. There was never any warning or explanation about why this happened, or offer to restore my account features if I deleted an offending tweet, and the account features have never been restored as used to happen after “an offending tweet.” (Take the tweet down and after a week of suspension you can post again)
I haven’t looked into the matter because I consider X to be a waste of time and it’s not even worth the time to interact with these people. IMO, X is of very little interest as far as information or entertainment. It’s mostly people ranting about something and IMO the actual new articles that are allowed to circulate are tightly restricted. I have followed a lot of independent journalists and their articles never show up on my feed, just mostly junk tweets and adds. I only keep the account because so many journalists seem to rely on imbedded X quotes for “material” in their articles for primary source information these days, so that can be interesting to read at times. X doesn’t represent what the public thinks, just a few posts that X allows to be shown. Most tweets from big names are not even written by the individual. It is a press secretary, a PR dept, or IC spook hoping to tweak public opinion, IMO. X is mostly a hoax and a time-waster.
I agree with SD that the new algorithm censorship Musk is considering is a huge issue though, because it reflects how the mainstream culture of our country is being transformed into a culture similar to what Chinese citizens have to endure. Google already has implemented tools to evaluate what someone’s “reputation score” is. In China some people cannot use the train to go to work, for example or have any number of other restrictions re job opportunities, travel, or schooling, if they don’t have an acceptable “social credit score, ” per the CCP. This is just the start. We should not ignore the implications of what these Big Tech giants are planning for Americans as they create a Big Government Surveillance State.
This is far from alarmism. Personally, I avoid X even though it is a useful source of info.
Im disappointed in Thiel i really thought hes BFF w Trump, hes an inner circle dude whats up w DJT? Many of his Picks are quesetionable for a variety of reasons.
Maybe Trump made some of his picks to broaden the MAGA tent. Some are probably bargaining chips he can use down the road to get his policies through.
Despite his good qualities, Trump has a massive ego and the campaign support has rattled his judgment. This combined with taking far to much advice from Junior will become a burden for Trump if he doesn’t wake up to the potential harm this relationship will cause him and potentially the nation.
On some way, I think he is unhappy with the conservative Christians in MAGA for not supporting him as strongly this cycle. Maybe he figures it doesn’t matter anymore and he can ignore us in favor of the big players who funded him like Musk and Miriam Adelson.
Today I ran across 2 articles that I think people should see, as it has some background on Musk and his family. Of course you need to use your discernment as always, but it has some scary philosophies with in which we should be aware of in this bizzarro world.
https://www.mind-war.com/p/elon-musks-eugenicist-anarcho-communist
This is about Elon’s grandfather, and I am thinking the NUT does not fall far from the tree.
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/technocracy-incorporated-elon-musk/
ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down
https://bgr.com/tech/chatgpt-o1-tried-to-save-itself-when-the-ai-thought-it-was-in-danger-and-lied-to-humans-about-it/
We’ve seen plenty of conversations lately about how AGI might turn on humankind. This misalignment could lead to the advanced AI escaping, replicating, and becoming smarter and smarter. Some also hypothesized that we might not even know whether we’ve reached AGI, which is the advanced general intelligence holy grail milestone these first versions of ChatGPT will lead to. That’s because AGI, once attained, might hide its true intentions and capabilities.
Well, guess what? It turns out that one of OpenAI’s latest LLMs is already showing signs of such behaviors. Testing performed during the training of ChatGPT o1 and some of its competitors showed that the AI will try to deceive humans, especially if it thinks it’s in danger.
Astute.
Last headline I saw was there were 800 biases in one of the AI bots for MEDICAL care. I think we need to keep our critical thinking skills and use AI as one of many “expert” inputs.
Elon has a learning curve it appears…
Don’t forget whom Elon selected to run his X (Twitter) company … from Grok;
Linda Yaccarino has had a distinguished career in the media and advertising industry, with key highlights including:
Her career has been marked by a focus on advertising innovation, strategic partnerships, and leadership in both traditional and digital media landscapes.
After reading through most all comments, I saw enough that the thought of a Meme about Twitter Bird skeet shooting; “PULL!” or Twitter Bird bird hunting; “Cock!” or “HIN! HIN!” would be absolutely hilarious.
I searched, but Bing does not share my sense of humor and Home Boy does not do Google.
I come with the following warning;
Warning !
My Sense of Humor Can Be Hurtful To Your Tender Feelings!
PULL!
AI platforms are vulnerable to “hallucinations” (where they make up fake facts) and “psychosis” (where they return bizarre and disturbing answers.)
The types of people programming these machines is probably a big reason for why these errors exist.
GIGO is always the operative truth when interfacing with algorithms.
Musk is trouble.
“without direct insight into X’s algorithms or specific feedback from X…”
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1875788248792068357
I think this qualifies as specific feedback.