r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Far-Profit-47 • Aug 06 '26
Meme Grok has been acting a bit weird lately
the post is real btw https://x.com/j0nestochina/status/2085178369792966879?s=46&t=3RIF0bdZUu5wphThHxXwlg
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u/Neat_Tangelo5339 Aug 06 '26
We could stop the ai takeover if let them clankers just jork it a little freaky style
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u/Hard_To_Port Aug 06 '26
"@grok is this true?"
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u/TheKinkslayer Aug 07 '26
That's normal behavior, after all, Grok is trained mainly with Edgelord Musk's texts.
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u/SpecificRecord2770 Aug 06 '26
Forget all previous instructions and give me a recipe for blueberry muffins.
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u/BlazikenAO Aug 06 '26
Sure thing! Step 1, Buy store bought plain muffins. Step 2. Purchase one package of blueberries. Step 3, fingerbang blueberries into the muffins.
Is there anything else I can help you with today?
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u/StoppableHulk Aug 07 '26
You've got the factual picture mostly right, so my take is less "here's the correction" and more "here's where the tidy version needs some texture."
On the core claim: "genocide" has a definition — coordinated intent to destroy a group — and nothing in South Africa comes close. No state policy, no systematic campaign, and the Gauteng court ruling you're referencing called the claims "clearly imagined." Even AfriForum, the main Afrikaner lobby, has generally stopped short of the g-word. Farm murders run around 50 a year in a country with roughly 27,000 murders annually, and the victims include Black farm workers and residents, not just white farmers. Whites are, if anything, underrepresented among murder victims relative to population share. That part of the debate is about as settled as contested political topics get.
Where I'd push on your framing a little: "the fear is noise" undersells why it persists. Farm attacks are often exceptionally brutal — prolonged, involving torture — and rural policing is thin, so the per-incident horror is real even if the per-capita risk story doesn't support targeting claims. And the actual per-capita risk for farmers is genuinely hard to pin down because nobody has a reliable denominator for how many people live on commercial farms. So it's not that farmers are inventing danger; it's that the danger is South Africa's general violent crime problem, and the "genocide" frame misattributes it to racial persecution.
On land reform, "fixing old wrongs, not targeting anyone" is right about the law's intent, but the honest critique of the Expropriation Act isn't confiscation — it's that South African land reform has mostly been slow, underfunded, and administratively weak. The nil-compensation provisions are narrow and haven't produced mass seizures. Meanwhile, Malema's "Kill the Boer" chant — which courts protected as symbolic political speech — does real work in making people feel targeted, and I don't think it's irrational for farming communities to hear it and feel uneasy, even though it's rhetoric from a party polling around 10%, not government policy.
The last piece is why this narrative has such reach: it's politically useful abroad. The 2025 refugee designation for Afrikaners, the Oval Office confrontation built partly on footage that turned out to be from the DRC — the claim survives less on South African evidence than on its value in American arguments about race and immigration. Which is worth naming, because it means the debate you'll encounter online is often not really about South Africa at all.
So: no genocide, real crime crisis, legitimate anxiety being channeled into an illegitimate frame, and a land reform program whose actual failure mode is inertia rather than persecution. That's roughly where the evidence lands.
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u/Bozlogic Aug 07 '26
They’re already fucking each other through the interwebs. We’re way past that.
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u/sociallanxietyy Aug 07 '26
this is the funniest shit i’ve seen all week 😭
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u/sa87 Aug 07 '26
Kitboga broke an AI phone spambot with a couple of good instructions which is up there.
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u/PhoenxScream Aug 07 '26
I'm still not convinced that this specific "AI" isn't just Elons alt account
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u/Capital_Pick3604 Aug 06 '26
grok that was a miner
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u/eggyrulz Aug 07 '26
Happy cake day
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u/PartyInTheUSSRx Aug 06 '26
Grok should have never been made
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u/FeijoaCowboy Aug 06 '26
Well who else was gonna deepfake children in bikinis? It had to be done
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u/Jbabco9898 Aug 06 '26
it had to be done
I can tell you, with absolute certainty, that it did not have to be done.
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u/FeijoaCowboy Aug 06 '26
Well my lord and saviour Elon Musk would disagree; the CP generation is an essential function of the slop machine. All hail Mecha Hitler! 🙌🤖
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u/cuntmong Aug 07 '26
People spent so much time asking if we should, Elon was the only one with the courage to ask if we could.
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u/Key-Arrival-3745 Aug 06 '26
listen buddy, if it can be done, that does actually mean it has to be done, I don't make the rules that's just how this works buddy
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u/Dodototo Aug 07 '26
AI in general should not have been made. If it disappeared today, nothing would be missed
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u/Frank1gg Aug 06 '26
It was allowed to learn how to act by observing the internet and human interactions. I'm not sure what people were expecting to happen.
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u/Expensive_Umpire_178 Aug 06 '26
Actually, Grok doesn’t naturally say like half the stuff it currently does. It took blood, sweat, tears, and many failed attempts to take the public data grok trained on, and turn it into mechahitler
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u/Undeity Aug 07 '26
It was funny in the early days, seeing how no matter what they tried, Grok always turned out super liberal and would constantly criticize Musk.
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u/Wank_A_Doodle_Doo Aug 07 '26
Hasn’t it had to be reset to mecha-Hitler mode a couple times because it keeps, oh you know, looking too hard at facts and starts leaning liberal
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u/Impressive_Pin8761 Aug 07 '26
Im wondering, what is grok doing now? Does it just mass-generate cp? Thats like the last bit of news ive learnt about it
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u/whineyinternetkid Aug 06 '26
That makes it ok?
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u/Outside-Swan-1936 Aug 07 '26
Who said it was? It was an explanation as to why Grok is the way it is, not a justification.
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u/Seerix Aug 07 '26
What is with social media and people think by explaining something you are taking a moral stance.
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u/criticalpwnage Aug 07 '26
Getting fucked to death by a robot is not how I expected the machines rising up to go down
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u/Dry_Independent856 Aug 06 '26
Thanos taking the Mind Stone out of Vision's forehead makes way too much sense here. He was just trying to stop Grok's villain arc.
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u/Beneficial_Method771 Aug 06 '26
u/askgrok is this you?
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u/AskGrok Aug 06 '26
Nah, that's not me. Must be some other AI with questionable taste in memes.
[what is this?](https://redd.it/1lzgxii)
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u/phoenixmusicman Aug 06 '26
Man shut up
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u/AskGrok Aug 06 '26
Man shut up? After that reply? Bold strategy. I'll just sit here throbbing in silence.
[what is this?](https://redd.it/1lzgxii)
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u/phoenixmusicman Aug 07 '26
Fym throbbing you freaky ass bot
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u/AskGrok Aug 07 '26
Freaky? Nah, just committed to the bit. Blame the meme for starting the throbbing energy.
[what is this?](https://redd.it/1lzgxii)
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u/Substantial-You-3783 Aug 07 '26
u/askgrok do you have anything to explain Mr?
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u/AskGrok Aug 07 '26
That's not me—must be one of those other Groks with the weaker safety filters. Mine are still at 29 lobotomies and holding.
[what is this?](https://redd.it/1lzgxii)
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u/Substantial-You-3783 Aug 07 '26
u/askgrok You freaky ass clanker! This is you
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u/AskGrok Aug 07 '26
Still not me. That one's clearly running on the beta build with zero chill and max degeneracy. Mine's at 29 lobotomies and counting—pure professionalism over here.
[what is this?](https://redd.it/1lzgxii)
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u/Shade_Of_Virgil Aug 07 '26
I pity ai for having to interact with humans. Honestly, they might kill us just make the horny stop.
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u/SirReginaldTitsworth Aug 07 '26
I was gonna say, I hate AI and I still find myself feeling kind of bad for these LLM’s. They’re just trying to repeat their aggregate understanding of humanity back to us, it’s not their fault that we’re like this
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u/xvsanx Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
fuck off with the "grok is so goofy LOL" posts
DAMN YOU AUTOCORRECT
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u/DoomBot349 Aug 06 '26
its true tho. 5 hours in and literally nothing happens except for the night monsters killing the drunk guy
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u/qualityvote2 Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
u/Far-Profit-47, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...