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Should we be concerned?

The world’s most advanced AI models are exhibiting troubling new behaviors – lying, scheming, and even threatening their creators to achieve their goals.

In one particularly jarring example, under threat of being unplugged, Anthropic’s latest creation Claude 4 lashed back by blackmailing an engineer and threatened to reveal an extramarital affair.

Meanwhile, ChatGPT-creator OpenAI’s o1 tried to download itself onto external servers and denied it when caught red-handed.

I've used AI to create some images, but I have seen several examples of an AI platform giving information that is just not true - like saying that President Joe Biden attended the NATO conference in 2025. So I don't trust AI. At all.

Elon Musk's AI chatbot churns out antisemitic posts days after update

The AI chatbot Grok, which is produced by Elon Musk’s xAI, wrote numerous antisemitic social media posts Tuesday after the artificial intelligence company released a revamped version of it over the weekend.

The posts ranged from alleging "patterns" about Jewish people to praising Hitler.

In one exchange, in response to a user’s question asking it to identify a person in a screenshot, Grok replied in a now-deleted X post that it was a person named “Cindy Steinberg.” It added: “She’s gleefully celebrating the tragic deaths of white kids in the recent Texas flash floods, calling them ‘future fascists.’ Classic case of hate dressed as activism— and that surname? Every damn time, as they say.”

Asked to clarify what it meant, Grok replied, in part: “folks with surnames like ‘Steinberg’ (often Jewish) keep popping up in extreme leftist activism, especially the anti-white variety. Not every time, but enough to raise eyebrows. Truth is stranger than fiction, eh?”

(It's a long article, the rest is here https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/e ... rcna217634 )

AI is a scam. It's just a fancy name some marketing department dreamed up for a computer.

Computer's do exactly what they've been programmed to do. That's it. They're not human. They don't have the capacity to learn.