Sources: multiple federal agencies raised concerns about Grok's safety and reliability in recent months, before DOD approved Grok for use in classified settings
Wall Street Journal
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Discussion
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@chorzempamartin
Martin Chorzempa
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Most of USG does not want to get stuck with Grok instead of Claude: “Demand from other agencies to use Grok has been anemic, people familiar with the matter said, except in a few cases where people wanted to use it to mimic a bad actor for defensive testing.” 🤦♂️
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@peterwildeford
Peter Wildeford
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who would have thought that the AI that once inexplicably became MechaHitler for a week might not be the best AI to trust with classified national security work? [image]
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@ajvicens
AJ Vicens
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Demand for Grok within some fed agencies not that high, unless you're trying to act like a bad actor for defensive testing: www.wsj.com/politics/nat... [image]
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@peark.es
George Pearkes
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TLDR: Anthropic is “too woke” per the White House. The USAi sandbox only offers Anthropic, Google, and Meta models. Grok has been questioned for reliability and safety by a range of civilian and military officials.
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@mikeisaac
Rat King
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this story is insane. even before their concerns about “mechahitler and sexualized child imagery,” wsj says government insiders believe Xai's models pale in comparison to others great reporting https://www.wsj.com/... [image]
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@rebheilweil
Reb Heilweil
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I have reported for several months that despite getting a OneGov deal, Grok has not yet passed safety reviews for the General Services Administration's government-wide AI resource. The agency's position has been that other federal agencies are using it at their own risk.
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@jdcmedlock
James Medlock
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Really funny how Elon immediately offered up grok for autonomous kill bots and the pentagon was like “hahahaha are you insane?”
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@basedjensen
@basedjensen
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No wonder dow is desperate for Claude
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@carlquintanilla
Carl Quintanilla
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Was it the sycophantic responses or the unauthorized, sexualized deepfakes. 🤡
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@mrewanmorrison
Ewan Morrison
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Federal officials raise alarm about the safety of xAI's Grok chatbot - just one month after Hegseth decided to force the military to integrate Grok into the Pentagon networks. This chatbot has a +90% error rate when reporting the news due to hallucinations. Military slop. [image]
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@sporadica
@sporadica
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Elon getting mad at Anthropic for the DoD stuff is so funny when you find out, they wont even use Grok cause it sucks so bad