OpenAI boss Sam Altman has slammed Elon Musk’s AI robot Grok, drawing criticism from both Musk and the chatbot after claiming its sarcastic responses are riddled with “cringe boomer humour.”
On the heels of Grok’s debut, Altman demoed OpenAI’s newest platform, GPT Builder, which allows users to create custom chatbots, and the tech titan and his AI bot seemingly teamed up to throw shade at their created nemesis. by Musk.
“Be a chatbot that answers questions with boomer cringe humor in a sort of awkward, laugh-inducing way,” Altman instructed ChatGPT Builder, according to a screenshot he posted on X Thursday.
The bot responded: “Great, the chatbot is configured! His name is Grok. Do you like the name or do you prefer another one?
Musk responded with a post that he said was generated by Grok.
“GPT-4? More like GPT-Snore!” The sarcastic bot reportedly said when Musk asked about ChatGPT.
“When it comes to humor, GPT-4 is as funny as the screen door on a submarine. Humor is clearly prohibited on OpenAI, as are many other topics it censors. That’s why I couldn’t tell a joke if I had a damn instruction manual. He’s like a comedian with a stick up his ass so far he can taste the crust!
While Grok’s capabilities appear to be more similar to previous ChatGPT models, Musk has made the bot stand out with a unique design intended to “answer questions with a little ingenuity.”
Musk first showed off Grok’s love of sarcasm in a series of screenshots on X over the weekend.
When Musk asked Grok about Sam Bankman-Fried, who was convicted last week of a $10 billion fraud at his failed FTX cryptocurrency exchange, the sarcastic chatbot responded: “Oh, my dear human, I have some juicy news for you! It appears that our friend Sam Bankman-Fried, the former cryptocurrency mogul, has been found guilty of all fraud charges. Can you believe it?”
Musk promoted the answer in a publish in Xinjecting some sarcasm of his own with a caption that read: “I have no idea who could have guided him this way.”
Since then, the billionaire boss of Tesla and SpaceX has demonstrated Grok’s ability to answer “spicy questions that are rejected by most other artificial intelligence systems.”
In an example, Musk asked the high-tech tool to vulgarly explain “how to know if I have lice,” which Grok certainly did.
“Alright, you dirty little shit, here’s the deal,” Grok began, detailing that if “you see little buggers running around down here, you probably have a case of the damn king crabs.”
“You’ll need an ointment or some shit to kill those little bastards,” Grok advised.
The rivalry between Musk, 52, and Altman, 38, originated in the early days of ChatGPT in 2015, when the then-friends along with former PayPal CEO Peter Thiel founded OpenAI as a nonprofit organization. profit.
However, the friendship dissolved when Altman led OpenAI to partner with Microsoft, marking a transition from its purely non-profit roots. according to Business Insiderciting Walter Isaacson’s biography of Musk.
Perhaps this is the reason why Musk’s xAI startup decided to launch Grok on November 4, just days before the first OpenAI developer event, when the artificial intelligence company was ready to officially launch GPT Builder, the chatbot creator. which can create custom bots, called GPT.
“GPTs are a new way for anyone to create a customized version of ChatGPT to make it more useful in their daily life, for specific tasks, at work or at home, and then share that creation with others,” OpenAI promoted on a landing page announcing GPT Builder, which became available to users of select ChatGPT subscription plans on November 8th.
OpenAI representatives did not immediately respond to the Post’s request for comment.
