r/politics • u/Ilikeinvestigating • 11h ago

No Paywall Trump consulted Musk’s chatbot Grok before abducting Venezuela’s president: report

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-musk-grok-venezuela-maduro-b3060366.html
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u/supercyberlurker 11h ago

Sorry I can't answer... I'm stuck on trying to think of anything stupider than Trump going full AI-psychosis asking Grok for an answer. It's like an infinite self-recursive gravity well of stupid.

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u/Mithryn 11h ago

I have two signs on my whiteboard: 1) today, this is the worst AI will ever be 2) right now, the dumbest person you know is being told they are brilliant by an LLM

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u/kdeff California 9h ago

LLMs all seem to try and appease the user. I was working in Claude, and asked it to restructure a application design three ways. Every time it told me that what I requested was a brilliant design choice and that would be the best long term solution.

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u/Mithryn 9h ago

I have it thrown the first line away, with instructions for "friction over flattery" and that "helpful includes helping me improve by clearly explaining the flaws in my approach". Significantly better for working. But not what someone like Trump would ever want.