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Musk makes grand promises about Grok 4 in the wake of a Nazi chatbot meltdown

The late evening live demo featured rambling on whether AI would be ‘bad or good for humanity.’

Hayden Field
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
xAI gets permission to pollute.

Elon Musk’s AI company has been granted a permit for 15 natural gas turbines to power a Memphis data center, along with limits on their emissions, which include smog-forming nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide.

The company has been accused of running the generators without permits for almost a year, and the Southern Environmental Law Center claims there are many more than that — raising the question of whether xAI will really stop at 15 now.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Are LLMs making our thoughts beige?

Kyle Chayka, who wrote for this website about the “airspace” aesthetic created by social media, is now looking into how LLM models affect creativity. He suggests that if Silicon Valley once homogenized decor — and, to some degree, created beige influencers — it may now be making LLM users less original, too.