I feel like I shouldn't have to say this, but Grok doesn't have morals. Or a constitution. It's not alive, and it's not conscious. The people who created Grok should have moral constitutions. Grok is a text extruder. That's it. We need to stop personifying it (and other LLMs). Of course, Musk should also know all of this, but it's in his best interest to treat Grok as a living thing to both enhance customer attachment and allow for shifting of blame.

The Independent

Elon Musk insists ‘Grok should have a moral constitution’ after AI photo scandal

Grok has now been banned in Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines

I sometimes forget that Threads is still a thing. I'm not a fan of Threads personally, and moving from Twitter to Threads feels like leaving one dumpster fire for a different dumpster fire with only slightly less fire, but I guess there is less fire. Are the choices here only Musk or Zuck?? Because that feels like some really bad choices. If I HAD to choose one, I'd choose Zuck, but I don't really have to choose one.

Engadget

Threads has more global daily users than X on mobile for the first time

Mobile traffic on Threads has been growing considerably.

I hope #Wikimedia got something good out of this, otherwise it feels a lot like extortion. "Give us direct access to your data or we're going to scrape the shit outta your site over and over and over until you go broke paying for data transfers." I mean, logically this kind of deal makes sense to avoid the constant data scraping, but wow it feels like they're getting screwed in the deal unless there's some part of the arrangement that isn't public yet.

Engadget

Wikimedia announces AI partners including Meta and Microsoft

Wikimedia foundation announces big tech companies are paying for streamlined access to data.

#Wikipedia