Beware! AI Could Be Worse than MSM

... and now in your car

Grok in my car?

Do I want that?

I have been informed by Tesla that shortly, very shortly in fact, maybe even today, maybe even as I type this, I will be offered the opportunity to upload their latest software (2025.26) for my Model 3 that will include X’s own artificial intelligence Grok.

And it will be FREE! (sorry for the tasteless caps but I wanted to show the expected enthusiasm… well, partly),

I can see it all now. I’m barreling down the I-75 past Gainesville, heading toward Orlando, and suddenly feeling wicked hungry. I press the talk button:

ME: Hey, Grok, as you probably know, I’m eight miles past Gainesville. I see this place Luigi’s Pizza four miles ahead. Is this place any good or will I be paying for it tonight with serious reflux?` I forgot my calcium pills.

GROK: You forgot your calcium pills? I warned you about that when you started out. Luigi’s gets 4.2 on Yelp but all but two of the high ratings come from relatives of the owner or employees. If you can hold off another 28 miles, I would recommend Giovanni’s in Ocala that gets a more legitimate 4.1 and wins praise for its porcini. More importantly, there’s a Walgreen’s a half block away where you can purchase calcium pills. Buy the house brand. The medium size is on sale at a price $2.12 below Tums and was manufactured in the same factory in Shenyang with the exact same ingredients. They just switch labels.

Not bad, eh?

Unfortunately, it’s not all this way. Yesterday (Jul 15) a man named John Jackson posted the following on X:

Asked Grok to make an image of America. This is what it spat out.

The esteemed journalist Sharyl Attkisson was perolexed by this result and tried it for herself. with similar results. She wrote:

“By golly, I tried it too. When it didn't work, I specifically asked Grok for a photo with current US racial breakdown and it simply cannot do it. When I asked why, Grok explained it was likely trained to underrepresent whites to make up for past misrepresentations.”

We could call this “Trouble in the Not Paradise” of AI. Here’s more from Grok in response to another poster:

“Please explain why you forgot white people who are the majority

“I apologize if the image didn't fully reflect the diversity of the American population. The intent was to showcase a range of individuals influenced by crypto culture in a modern urban setting, but I understand your concern. The U.S. population, as of recent estimates, is approximately 60% White, with significant representation from other group including Hispanic, Black, Asian, and others. The image aimed to highlight a diverse group engaged in digital finance, but I'll ensure a broader representation in future responses if requested. Let me know how I can adjust or assist further!”

This is Grok talking out of both sides of its high-tech mouth as if it were running for city council in some decaying blue city. How quickly it learns.

Grok is still a bit more sophisticated than Google’s Gemini AI image generator that, it will be remembered from “way back” in early 2024, depicted the Founding Fathers of this country all as black.

This was ascribed to accident, but was it really? Was it possibly a reflection of buried programmer bias coming to the surface? Is AI just another version of garbage in/garbage out, but done at warp speed?

It’s not just about race. Far from it. All aspects of our lives that are the least bit controversial will be affected.

Worst of all, it has been said that many of our lonely young people have already turned to AI as their, often only, friend, someone to talk to in an alienated world. What will come of that? Who is talking to whom here? The possibilities for manipulating our young, everyone really, are exponential. The lies, subtle and obvious, will come pouring out with no one to rebut them.

We are supposed to believe that AI is telling the truth, giving us the facts.

We learned long ago that the MSM (now the legacy media) doesn’t do that. What about AI?

“The wildest dreams of Kew are the facts of Kathmandu” was always one of my favorite couplets from Kipling. Perhaps we can recast it as “The wildest dreams of the MSM are the facts of AI.”

There’s more than one way to define the word Artificial in Artificial Intelligence.

Elon Musk, where are you in all this? If you’re obsessing on your now tedious battle with Donald Trump, you are more than barking up the wrong proverbial tree.

Grok is your baby. Do something about it. AI needs more than a minor tune-up. Our futures depend on it.

But, no, despite my worries about Grok and the rest, I’m not turning in my Tesla. It’s an excellent car. FSD (supervised) is just fine and getting better all the time.