https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/elon-musks-xai-offers-grok-to-federal-government-for-42-cents/

Earlier this year, xAI had been close to being approved as a GSA vendor, but after Grok began generating antisemitic posts and calling itself “MechaHitler” on X, the planned partnership reportedly fell through.

https://www.marketingaiinstitute.com/blog/grok-model-update


Grok’s antisemitic outputs didn’t come out of nowhere. They were the result of a deliberate, if misguided, engineering decision. A line in its system prompt told it not to shy away from politically incorrect claims, language that was only removed after backlash erupted.
These kinds of decisions on the part of xAI, which has a reputation for moving fast and breaking things, have real-world consequences—especially when it comes to making Grok appealing to businesses.
"I can't see how Grok is gonna be an enterprise tool in any way," says Roetzer.
When an AI tool can become a propaganda engine overnight, how can any business trust it to be a reliable assistant, let alone a mission-critical application?
The Grok incident also exposes a deeper risk: that powerful AI systems are being built, updated, and deployed at breakneck speed with minimal safety oversight.

AI alignment—the process of ensuring AI systems behave as intended—isn’t just a theoretical concern. It’s now a frontline issue.

 

https://www.404media.co/openais-sor...atures-nazi-spongebobs-and-criminal-pikachus/

Within moments of opening OpenAI’s new AI slop app Sora, I am watching Pikachu steal Poké Balls from a CVS. Then I am watching SpongeBob-as-Hitler give a speech about the “scourge of fish ruining Bikini Bottom.” Then I am watching a title screen for a Nintendo 64 game called “Mario’s Schizophrenia.” I swipe and I swipe and I swipe. Video after video shows Pikachu and South Park’s Cartman doing ASMR; a pixel-perfect scene from the Simpsons that doesn’t actually exist; a fake version of Star Wars, Jurassic Park, or La La Land; Rick and Morty in Minecraft; Rick and Morty in Breath of the Wild; Rick and Morty talking about Sora; Toad from the Mario universe deadlifting; Michael Jackson dancing in a room that seems vaguely Russian; Charizard signing the Declaration of Independence, and Mario and Goku shaking hands. You get the picture.

 

https://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/chatgpt-confession-196015

Cops: Accused Vandal Confessed To ChatGPT
Collegian, 19, told AI program he "destroyed so many ppls cars"

 

https://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/chatgpt-confession-196015

Cops: Accused Vandal Confessed To ChatGPT
Collegian, 19, told AI program he "destroyed so many ppls cars"

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"... a 19-year-old sophomore"

Definitely not an engineering sophomore ...

 

https://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/chatgpt-confession-196015

Cops: Accused Vandal Confessed To ChatGPT
Collegian, 19, told AI program he "destroyed so many ppls cars"

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Anyone want to start a pool on how long it will be before this self-absorbed sociopath will commit some heinous crime and everyone will be shaking their heads wondering how everyone missed the obvious signs?

 

"... a 19-year-old sophomore"

Definitely not an engineering sophomore ...

The most impressive part about this whole story is that ChatGPT was able to figure out what he was saying.

 

Anyone want to start a pool on how long it will be before this self-absorbed sociopath will commit some heinous crime and everyone will be shaking their heads wondering how everyone missed the obvious signs?

Indeed!
What I find most troubling is the fact that he committed these random destruction acts without any legitimate motive against his victims.
The fact that he also expressed a desire that “all these *****rs deserve to die” is extremely disturbing. As you mentioned, he very likely could have evolved into the next mass shooter.

 

https://fortune.com/2025/10/03/friend-ai-necklace-review-avi-schiffmann/

I tried the viral AI ‘Friend’ necklace everyone’s talking about—and it’s like wearing your senile, anxious grandmother around your neck

 

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250926-the-perils-of-letting-ai-plan-your-next-trip

Miguel Angel Gongora Meza, founder and director of Evolution Treks Peru, was in a rural Peruvian town preparing for a trek through the Andes when he overheard a curious conversation. Two unaccompanied tourists were chatting amicably about their plans to hike alone in the mountains to the "Sacred Canyon of Humantay".

"They [showed] me the screenshot, confidently written and full of vivid adjectives, [but] it was not true. There is no Sacred Canyon of Humantay!" said Gongora Meza. "The name is a combination of two places that have no relation to the description. The tourist paid nearly $160 (£118) in order to get to a rural road in the environs of Mollepata without a guide or [a destination]."

What's more, Gongora Meza insisted that this seemingly innocent mistake could have cost these travellers their lives. "This sort of misinformation is perilous in Peru," he explained. "The elevation, the climatic changes and accessibility [of the] paths have to be planned. When you [use] a program [like ChatGPT], which combines pictures and names to create a fantasy, then you can find yourself at an altitude of 4,000m without oxygen and [phone] signal."

Incidents like this are part of a larger trend of AI implementations that may subtly – or not so subtly – alter our sense of the world. A recent example came in August, when content creators realised YouTube had been using AI to alter their videos without permission by subtly "editing" things like the clothing, hair and faces of real people in the videos. Netflix landed in hot water for its own use of AI in early 2025, after efforts to "remaster" old sitcoms left surreal distortions in the faces of beloved 1980s and '90s television stars. As AI is increasingly used to make these kinds of small changes without our knowledge, the lines between reality and a polished AI dreamworld may be starting to blur for travelers too.

The AI slop keeps flowing, to the delight of the eaters until, 'one day' ...

 

https://www.ign.com/articles/japane...able-treasures-that-japan-boasts-to-the-world

The Japanese government has made a formal request asking OpenAI to refrain from copyright infringement (as reported by ITMedia). This comes as a response to Sora 2’s ability to generate videos featuring the likenesses of copyrighted characters from anime and video games.

Sora 2, which OpenAI launched on October 1, is capable of generating 20-second long videos at 1080p resolution, complete with sound. Soon after its release, social media was flooded with videos generated by the app, many of which contained depictions of copyrighted characters including those from popular anime and game franchises such as One Piece, Demon Slayer, Pokémon, and Mario.

 

"it seems to me that the most likely path to human-level machine intelligence is that humans will get dumb enough"

 

Hello,

Woman wins with lotery numbers picked by chatgpt:

https://people.com/michigan-woman-wins-100k-lottery-prize-with-numbers-picked-by-chatgpt-11831948

Bertus

 

Hello,

Woman wins with lotery numbers picked by chatgpt:

https://people.com/michigan-woman-wins-100k-lottery-prize-with-numbers-picked-by-chatgpt-11831948

Bertus

My reaction is... so what? People have won lotteries by reading tea leaves or using significant dates in their lives. The numbers picked by a chatbot have exactly the same chance of winning as anyone else. Most winners used the "quick pick" option that most lotteries offer. That doesn't imply that using quick picks increase your odds of winning. How many millions of people are already using chatbots to pick their numbers? Of course some fraction of those are going to win.

 

I guess I'm in the no AI club.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/m...say-no-to-artificial-intelligence/ar-AA1P2kdF
Meet the people who dare to say no to artificial intelligence

I find they do nothing but waste my time doing something serious that requires creativity and actual intelligence.. It's a tool, like using TNT when you need a pencil.

 

I guess I'm in the no AI club.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/m...say-no-to-artificial-intelligence/ar-AA1P2kdF
Meet the people who dare to say no to artificial intelligence

I find they do nothing but waste my time doing something serious that requires creativity and actual intelligence..

I think Grok to be a useful search engine, more so than Google.

Aside from that, I enjoy doing my own work.

 

I think Grok to be a useful search engine, more so than Google.

Aside from that, I enjoy doing my own work.

I don't need search engines to tell me what I already know. I'm usually looking for things the current 'AI' based search engines have insufficient examples from the learning databases to have a clue about what to show as accurate information as a AI summary.
I've turned-off responses on all AI slop searches from all sources as these tools are only useful when I already know what they will deliver.

 

I don't need search engines to tell me what I already know. I'm usually looking for things the current 'AI' based search engines have insufficient examples from the learning databases to have a clue about what to show as accurate information as a AI summary.
I've turned-off responses on all AI slop searches from all sources as these tools are only useful when I already know what they will deliver.

I would disagree with this. I have found them (well, for me, 'them' is Copilot since that's the one that's close at hand) to be very useful as a search engine and they are very good at tracking down useful information in places that I would have never thought to look and that didn't turn up in any of the searches I did using traditional search engines. But, I have to take everything they say with a huge grain of salt. But, that is also true with traditional search results, as they turn up lots of hits that have irrelevant and/or incorrect information. The big difference is that, since you are just given a list of hits that you have to explore yourself, you are better primed, even at a subconscious level, to assess the validity and applicability of the information on each hit (which is not the same thing as saying that we necessarily do this assessment well). The LLMs tend to present the results as if they are delivered from on high by an all-knowing oracle, which leads a large fraction of people into the false conclusion that the presentation is reflective of the quality of the research and knowledge backing it up, which is far, far from the truth.

Sometimes Copilot presents links to where it is pulling information, and sometimes I go out to those links and discover that the information is fundamentally unrelated and just has a veneer of applicability. Other times, it is spot on an pretty much exactly what I needed. I often press Copilot to back up its claims and provide me with a reference. Sometimes it does right away. Other times, it hems and haws and rephrases and, when pushed hard enough, starts turning up references that are not relevant or clearly misapplied. This has been a predictable enough pattern that if it can't give me some kind of reference on the first request for it to do so, I jump to the conclusion that it has made up what it is telling me and that it must be considered unreliable (which is not to say that it is necessarily wrong and hasn't pulled together and assembled enough bits and pieces correctly, but I'm certainly not going to accept it at face value, no matter how reasonable and plausible it sounds). Even when I have reason to think it is making up stuff out of whole cloth, I have found that the kind of information it gives, including terms and phrases that it uses, are often useful to help me perform a more traditional search more effectively.

 

No thanks to all AI slop.

 

No thanks to all AI slop.

Same way I feel about C for embedded 8 bit.

 

Same way I feel about C for embedded 8 bit.

I agree to the most point, C is an odd-duck on an 8-bit controller that requires machine code/hardware programming/building experience to be good at but who just programs on one type of 8/16/32-bit controllers today.

ASM or C is just coding, it's not programming.

I can't remember the last time a problem was left unsolved because of a old school search failure. The current AI slop is expensive so there will be nuggets in it that are good, I just prefer my nuggets with sweet and sour instead.