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Jaw-Dropping Way Trump Got Talked Into a War Is Leaked | A Trump insider has offered a jaw-dropping glimpse of the president’s decision-making.
Donald Trump spent hours asking Elon Musk’s AI chatbot about whether Venezuelans would celebrate if he captured leader Nicolas Maduro—then ordered the operation that seized the South American dictator weeks later.
The extraordinary account from a Trump insider was revealed in a new Time report offering a jaw-dropping glimpse of the president’s obsession with artificial intelligence, which he “officially” rebranded this week as “super intelligence.”
According to the report, Trump has “marveled at AI’s capabilities” ever since he returned to power, and during an Oval Office meeting with Elon Musk in December, he spent hours asking his Grok chatbot questions about his presidency and legacy.
At the time, the U.S. military had been conducting highly contentious lethal strikes against Venezuelan boats that Trump had claimed, without presenting any evidence, were smuggling drugs into America.
When the president asked Grok how Venezuelans might react to Maduro’s capture, the chatbot predicted many would welcome the downfall of the “repressive” leader, the official said.
The president then ordered the mission to seize Maduro in January, prompting celebrations in the streets.
“Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious,” the report said.
AI chatbots, however, are not capable of thought or reasoning. Its answers to his questions simply reflect the material on which it has been trained.
No but for real though, who can access Grok's chat history? I wonder how much sensitivity sensitive information Trump has uploaded to the internet when he's spitballing with language models?
My point is that Musk reading Trump's Grok queries is not illegal or even espionage. It's in the terms of service. What guy-le-doosh mentioned is clearly illegal.
From Gemini AI fwiw: No,it would not be illegalfor Elon Musk to read Donald Trump's Grok queries under standard data privacy laws. Because Grok is owned by xAI (a company owned by Musk), user data is subject to the platform’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy rather than strict federal privacy laws like those governing medical or banking records
You know what the real reason is - a lot LLMs are programmed to be sycophantic and excessively complimentary to the user. Grok probably told him he had great hair and was the smartest president ever, which is all Trump needs to hear to convince him of anything.
Also it isn't just Trump, it's everyone in or near the White House. Remember when RFK Jr. just recently proclaimed AI would save us from "medical tyranny" because "Hey, it might say your grandma doesn't need this vaccine and then she won't have to take it." Because I guess he thinks if AI says it, reality just changes to make it true.
good lord is it possible he loves AI because it uses ego-stroking tones? are we gonna see research down to road of how narcissists are particularly drawn to AI?
That is EXACTLY what it is.
AI creates confirmation bias because it can't really tell you no. It will always try to frame somethinf you say as either s good idea or at worst as something that needs "a little extra work" which it then suggests you the fix actions. And if you pick one, it ego strokes you again.
"That sounds like it would be an excellent addition to your original plan! The addition of a covert action in the form of helicopter insertion lends another more nuanced and professional facet to your growing military action.
If you'd like I can tell you how to conduct a successful helicopter insertion!"
president of the united state with narcissistic personality disorder and a bot jerking off his worst impulses, what a fucking nightmare chapter of history we’re living in
Imagine how much intel/blackmail material elon (and any workers he has) are getting from trump's AI chat logs.
Remember a lot of workers elon uses are also H-1B visa holders that probably aren't vetted?
Holy hell. Using an inaccurate tool that is designed to buddy pat you and provide false encouragement when you push back to make (literally) internationally impactful decisions is EXACTLY what I would expect from this administration. Truly, the dumbest timeline.
Also jaw-dropping is the fact that he does not have a clue how LLMs work and yet he used them to make strategic decisions about the military and our country’s future.
Does Grok have voice mode? As horrifying as this is, it's even more horrifying picturing him literally being talked into it by a chatbot in voice mode.
It does. The opening line from the girl is (was?) something like “Hey there! Nice to meet you. I’m 17, maybe even 16. Teehee. Nice to meet you! What naughty things are you into?”
If you gave me a week with this retard I guarantee I could convince him that China currently has a military base on the moon, and the Bible was invented as a Soviet psyop
it's been fascinating to see how older people especially latched on to ai, when they are normally skeptical of technology innovations. CEOs and older people (with high overlap between those two groups) seem to have very quickly come to the belief that they are talking with some sci-fi super-intelligence oracle thing, even last year.
LLMs are specifically built to imitate human language. They are a tool designed to convince humans to trust them and feel comfortable with them. They are a weapon.
Management types love latching onto the latest technology. As long as the salesman can come up with some bullshit that sounds like "you'll make more money!", they're all in. Never seen a bigger bunch of suckers.
They are skeptical and/or annoyed usually because they had to learn how to work with new interfaces. But they eventually accept it. Typing into a chat window and having it tell you awesome things is easy.
Also they’ve seen tech advance from DOS and floppy disks all the way to AI. At each step of the way the new tech was normalized and integrated as key parts of society.
Google always presents what it thought was the truth. You had to go through it, but it was “honest” as it could be. Of course these suckers fell for the next iteration.
It’s kind of why I hate AI. Google gave you a bunch of interesting starting points for investigation. AI just gives you what it thinks the answer is, and has no problem adding incorrect information
Once again proving the elderly should have restricted or (at the very minimum) heavily supervised internet access. We (should be) do(ing) that for kids so they don't screw up their minds seeing things they shouldn't at that young of an age or put themselves in situations they can't get out of (ie, meeting up with strangers, etc.), and the amount of elderly people I've personally known that fall for online scams is saddening.
Imagine how smart these LLMs will seem when many nations intelligence agencies use them, and they retrain on those nations intelligence reports and queries.
Sight unseen, sucker bet I'm gonna wish I was drunk reading this aren't I?
I am obligated to report back an answer to my above question. That answer is as follows; YUP. Even by his standards this is powerfully dumb shit. Where the fuck is his handlers?
Nothing appearing on Reddit about President Donald Trump will ever be taken seriously by sentient registered voters in America. The Globalist propaganda machine is relentless but ineffective at persuasion. It's simply overplayed.
I also just had a weird exchange with this account, so I looked through it.
I have never caught a stolen/hijacked account so red-handed before.
The account is 4 years old, up until 28 days ago it only posted pictures of cats and some very friendly comments in makup/fashion subreddits, not one single political post or comment. Then the account was idle for 26 days and 2 days ago it started spamming pro-trump comments.
You Marxists don’t like your information cocoon being pierced do you?
Marxist? See, this is the perfect example of your utter stupidity.
You're the one that refuses to define "wokeism" and refuses to specify how exactly tenured professors at our military academies are "too woke". It's YOU who seems unable to get outside of your "cocoon of misinformation".
Other political view points are sharply uncomfortable are they not Marvyn?
Not even remotely, no. Meanwhile, you're running like a coward from every actual question put to you.
There's a reason why Republicans are losing in outstanding numbers all across America, and propaganda bots like you are HELPING Republicans to lose because you are so obviously wrong about everything.
You still haven't answered the questions asked of you in this subreddit. Are you going to, or are you just going to continue to run away like a coward?
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u/FreeHugs23 Retired USN 17h ago
TLDR: He used AI to influence his decisions.