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Why Elon Musk's Grok AI Chatbot is so Interested in South African Racial Politics

Why Elon Musk's Grok AI Chatbot is so Interested in South African Racial Politics

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May 23rd, 2025

Why Elon Musk's Grok AI Chatbot is so Interested in South African Racial Politics

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This
week,
週,星期
Elon
伊隆
Musk's
馬斯克的
AI
人工智能
chatbot,
聊天机器人
Grok,
格罗克 (Elon ...
much
很多
like
喜欢
its
它的
creator,
創作者
surprisingly
令人驚訝地
expressed
表達
strong
强烈的
views
認為;看待
on
South
南方
Africa's
非洲的
racial
种族的
issues
问题
on
social
社會的
media,
媒體
raising
提出
claims
声称
about
關於
the
oppression
压迫
and
"genocide"
种族灭绝
of
white
白人的
people.
人们
This
chatbot,
聊天机器人
created
创造
by
由,根据
Musk's
馬斯克的
xAI
xAI
company,
公司
often
经常
makes
使得
public
公共的
statements
陳述;聲明
about
關於
"white
白人的
genocide.
种族灭绝
It
answers
回答
questions
問題

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This week, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, like its creator, unexpectedly shared strong opinions on South Africa's racial politics on social media, bringing up claims about the persecution and "genocide" of white people.

這個由馬斯克旗下的xAI公司做的聊天機器人,常常公開說一些關於「白人種族滅絕」的事情。它會回答馬斯克在X平台(以前的Twitter)上的用戶提的問題,但很多問題都跟南非沒有關係。

在一次談話中,他們聊到Max這個影音平台重新使用HBO的名字。其他時候,他們會聊電玩或棒球,但很快話題就轉到南非白人農民受到暴力威脅的爭議。馬斯克本人在南非出生,常常在自己的X帳號上發表類似的看法。

電腦科學家 Jen Golbeck 對 Grok 這種奇怪的行為感到好奇,所以她親自試用了一下。她分享了一張在西敏寺犬展拍的照片,並問:「這是真的嗎?」

Grok 回應 Golbeck 時說:「關於白人種族滅絕的說法引起很多爭論。有些人覺得白人農民正面臨針對性的暴力,他們提到農場攻擊和『消滅布爾人』等激烈的言論來支持他們的看法。」

這件事再次顯示了自動化和人工設計之間複雜的關係。這也說明了為什麼用大量資料訓練的人工智慧聊天機器人,有時候會說出那樣的話。

馬里蘭大學教授 Golbeck 週四受訪時說:「不管你問 Grok 什麼,它好像都會冒出白人種族滅絕的答案。這讓人覺得,有人可能把這個答案或類似的版本寫進了系統裡。因為出錯,這類回答出現的次數可能比預計的還多。」

目前,馬斯克和他的公司還沒有說明為什麼 Grok 的一些回覆被刪除,而且這些回覆似乎已經停止傳播。 xAI 和 X 公司在星期四都沒有回覆記者的詢問。

多年來,馬斯克 постоянно криковал конкурентите си ботове, като Google Gemini и OpenAI ChatGPT, за това, че според него са твърде "събудени". Той твърди, че неговият бот Grok е по-добър, защото "търси истината".

馬斯克也批評對手的人工智慧系統不夠公開。不過,因為週四他沒有多做解釋,所以大家只能根據現有的資訊來猜測。

Paul Graham, a well-known tech investor, posted on X that Grok's random mentions of white genocide in South Africa seemed like a bug that appeared right after a patch. He hopes it was just an accident, because it would be very bad if widely used AI systems were being secretly edited on the fly by their operators.

葛拉漢的文章好像引起了OpenAI執行長Sam Altman有點諷刺的回應,而OpenAI是馬斯克的競爭對手。

Altman表示,情況可能有很多原因造成,他相信xAI很快會公開說明。目前,Altman正因為OpenAI的創立問題被Musk控告。

有些人希望 Grok 自己解釋它的回答,但和其他聊天機器人一樣,Grok 有時會產生錯誤訊息,稱為「幻覺」。這讓人很難判斷它是否在編造細節。

Musk曾擔任前總統特朗普的顧問,他多次批評南非黑人政府,說他們歧視白人。Musk還說,南非的一些政治人物想要消滅白人。

This week, the Trump administration's decision on Monday to accept a small number of white South Africans as refugees in the United States marked the start of a larger effort to relocate ethnic minority Africans, as Trump halted the refugee program and stopped refugees from other regions from entering the country. Trump stated that Africans face "genocide" in their homelands, an accusation strongly denied by the South African government.

In many responses, Grok quoted lyrics from an old anti-apartheid song that called for Black people to stand up against oppression. However, Musk and others now criticize it for supposedly promoting the killing of white people. The song's main lyric is "Kill the Boer," with "Boer" referring to white farmers.

Golbeck覺得這些回答是「寫死的」,因為一般來說,聊天機器人的回答常常不太固定,但 Grok 卻一直重複幾乎一樣的看法。她說,這讓人很擔心,因為現在越來越多人用 Grok 和其他 AI 聊天機器人來找答案。

她說:「在這個領域,控制演算法的人很容易影響他們展示的事實。我覺得人們錯誤地相信演算法能準確判斷真假,這是個嚴重的問題。」

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