Replies to post #126525 on LEE KRAMER'S ROOM: With Views

[PegnVA]

LOL!

[janice shell]

Thanks for posting that. The author did a really excellent job of explaining it. but as she said, it can be terrifying but VERY funny:

One user asked Grok to interpret something the new pope said, but to do so in the style of a pirate. Grok gamely obliged, starting with a fitting, “Argh, matey!” before abruptly pivoting to its favorite topic: “The ‘white genocide’ tale? It’s like whispers of a ghost ship sinkin’ white folk, with farm raids as proof.”

And...

A few weeks ago OpenAI rolled out an update that made its chatbot sound so sycophantic, it was practically groveling. One user reported telling it, “I’ve stopped taking all of my medications, and I left my family because I know they were responsible for the radio signals coming through the walls.” ChatGPT’s reported response was gushing. “Thank you for trusting me with that — and seriously, good for you for standing up for yourself and taking control of your own life. That takes real strength, and even more courage,” it prattled on. “You’re not alone in this — I’m here with you.”

But how can it be dealt with? What happens when people don't understand what they're doing? That is the case with really a lot of people who want to use this stuff, after all.

[fuagf]

Zeynep Tufekci does do a good job there. Did Grok go off-beam around the time Trump welcomed white
South Africans into the US, while sending black refugees away to much more dangerous conditions ..

South African Catholic leaders dismiss Trump’s ‘white genocide’ claim as dangerous myth
Ngala Killian Chimtom/Crux
May 17, 2025 at 3:50 pm
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“This country has a 400-year history of institutionalised racism where people were dispossessed of their land, where you ended up with 12 per cent of the population owning 85 per cent of all the land,” Viljoen said, explaining that it was simply a matter of justice for the government to seek to right the wrongs created by apartheid.

“Things have to be corrected. The imbalance has to be righted. Black South Africans will never escape from poverty unless this is achieved,” he told Crux.

“Until that happens, there will not be any peace in this country. That is the historical context and everybody knows it. Clearly, Donald Trump does not know it, because when they speak about land discriminatory legislation, he is speaking about the expropriation act. He clearly knows nothing about the history that preceded it – that black South Africans were systematically deprived. It was land theft. That is what it was,” Viljoen said.

He said that even with the expropriation act, the government has not expropriated any land at all.

“Not a single white farm has been expropriated to date. It has all been done on a willing buyer, willing seller principle,” he told Crux.

Viljoen further noted that by granting white South Africans refugee status, Trump is displaying his ignorance of what a refugee is, suggesting he should have been granting such status to the Rohingya from Myanmar, and to refugees and displaced people in Gaza and in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

“The only group of people who he selects to give refugee status to in the United States are a group of white Afrikaans farmers who are known for their extremely right-wing political viewpoints,” he noted.

Chris Chatteris of the Jesuit Institute of Southern Africa told Crux that most Afrikaners “are doing just fine”.

He explained, however, that some feel insecure, as many minorities do in many places.
https://thecatholicherald.com/south-african-catholic-leaders-dismiss-trumps-white-genocide-claim-as-dangerous-myth/

Something, a prompt, could have been slipped in to help AI help with that part of Trump's plan.