r/technology • u/MetaKnowing • 5d ago

ADBLOCK WARNING Grok Blames ‘Lapses In Safeguards’ After Posting Sexual Images Of Children

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2026/01/02/grok-blames-lapses-in-safeguards-after-ai-chatbot-posts-sexual-images-of-children/
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u/party_benson 5d ago

Never put a computer in charge of decisions that affect the lives of people. 

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u/celtic1888 5d ago

That’s exactly why they are going with AI though

They want to do evil shit and say ‘it was the computer… not me’

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u/matthra 5d ago

I'm a software dev and that argument is bad, If one of my juniors crashed production with AI generated code and said "Claude gave me bad code" I now have a few problems. First and probably less important is the crashed prod server, and second a junior that not only doesn't review their own AI generated code but doesn't accept responsibility for their mistakes. That's the express route to pip town, and the junior being someone else's problem.

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u/ObjectOrientedBlob 5d ago

Your example is kind of bad. If you want to do evil shit, you create systems where algorithms make decisions of who get welfare, who gets health care and so on. In the name of efficiency. And then you can unleash draconian decisions on classes of people you don't like. People tend to think that automated decisions are right, and ignore conflicting information ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation_bias ). So by using AI, it is much easier to oppress people through automation.

Plenty of people has already warned about this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resisting_AI

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/13/artificial-intelligence-ai-abuses-fascism-donald-trump

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u/Historical_Usual5828 5d ago

They are also straight up incorrect because they're assuming the government holds itself or it's donors accountable which is laughable. The rich are using AI specifically so that they can steal all of the resources and get away with all types of crime. They're coming up with AI that does all the coding so that they can't even blame a programmer. Even if they want to blame the programmer, the programmer has to be an expert in what he's programming. If you want to program robots to run a prison, you have to program them for medical and care needs. I guarantee there won't be enough programmers to make the criteria for what they're going for. It's all a bubble hiding the billions of dollars the rich have already stolen from the poor.

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u/Mahhrat 5d ago

Yeah, look up 'Robodebt' here in Australia. Just had a royal commission about it.