For years, politicians from across the political spectrum insisted the Online Safety Act would focus solely on illegal content without threatening free expression. But from the moment its age-verification duties took effect on 25 July, that reassurance began to unravel.
Oh my god… it doesn’t work that way!
The chatbot doesn’t know who restricted the video or how it was restricted. The chatbot doesn’t know anything, it just calculated that based on its training data “Yes the video was restricted due to the Online Safety Act” was a likely answer and then it spit that out.
I still think it’s amusing that the author views Grok as a spokesperson for Twitter
Twitter deserves it even if it isn’t accurate.
Not reporting on it kinda lets X have it both ways though. They can curate it to be a spokesperson and default to spreading a certain message to users, but if the media reports on it spreading that message it’s suddenly out of context because it’s just a fancy autocomplete.
So what? Hold Twitter accountable for the lies Grok tells anyway.
I remember ChatGPT telling my dad that his image will be generated any moment now when the app clearly glitched out and didn’t give him his 20th Ghibli image of my mum.