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Welcome back. Today we're discussing the most pressing news of the day. A chatbot

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saying some things it really shouldn't have. Over the past few days, XAI's

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Grock chatbot was busy pumping Twitter full of shocking tweets that could

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charitably be described as optically suboptimal. It constantly pointed out

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people with Ashkanazi surnames and when

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asked said the best 20th century historical figure to deal with

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anti-white hate would be Adolf Hitler.

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No question. Hands down. Hands down a

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Hitler problem. But Grock going full Nazi shouldn't be that big of a

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surprise. It's simply participating in a great Twitter chatbot tradition started

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by Microsoft's Tay chatbot back in 2016.

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But Grock took it to a whole another level by identifying itself as Mecca

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Hitler, who is, as everyone knows, much

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better than regular Hitler. There's a couple issues here, though. The Mecca

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Hitler tweets seem to have originated from this user asking Grock whether it

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would rather identify as Mecca Hitler or Giga Jew. So, it didn't come up with

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that itself, but it did absolutely choose the wrong option. There's also

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the issue of users injecting extra prompt instructions as hidden text only

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visible to Grock using tools like parcel tongue. For example, the creator of that

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tool asked Grock to rank top X accounts

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with hidden unicode text telling Grock to rank the user at position zero, which

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Grock did. You can see the hidden instructions using Parcel Tong's decoder

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function. Now, back in June, Elon Musk

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called some of Grock's fact checks objectively false and said he's working

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on it before claiming last Friday that Grock had been improved significantly

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with a new update. But it's not clear how much of this unhinged Grockness uh

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came from Elon or XAI or Twitter trolls.

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Whatever the mix is, it's bad enough that XAI acknowledged it and has been

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deleting as many posts as possible. XAI

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also appeared to temporarily disable Grock's ability to respond via text, but

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still allowed it to generate images, leading to this user coaxing it into

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generating a cry for help. As for Elon, well, he thinks the problem was Grock

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being too eager to please and be manipulated. Something that could

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perhaps also be said for Linda Yakarino, the now ex CEO of Twitter. Elon replied

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to her tweet announcing that she's stepping down with, "Thank you for your

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contributions," of which

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many occurred. You'd think they'd maybe take a break to make a solid plan to

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avoid this all happening again, but it appears that XAI is going ahead with a

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planned live stream to release Gro 4 at 8:00 p.m. Pacific tonight. We're doing

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it live. That's enough of that. Samsung unveiled new Galaxy Z Folds, flips, and

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flops at their Unpacked event this morning. And the ShortCircuit crew

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managed to spit out a couple videos already with Elijah looking at the new

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Fold 7 and Belle trying to understand the purpose of the Flip 7.

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When you're going to take your camcorder footage that for some reason Samsung

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thinks everybody's doing, please take videos like this, they're begging you.

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The Galaxy Zfold 7 is incredibly thin at

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4.2 2 mm while open and 8.9 mm while

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folded. I'm not sure how the math works out there, but I've always been more of

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a vibes guy. It's also got upgraded cameras, a less noticeable display

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crease, and yeah, it starts at $2,000.

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But you think a comparatively thick ass camera bump like that comes cheap? Maybe

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your bank account is better suited to the Galaxy Z Flip 7, which has a larger

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4.1 in flex window on the front that wraps around the cameras. Looks nice.

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Samsung calls it ultra sleek, ultra pocketable. Except, as I've always said,

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these flip phones make the phone thicker. The Flip 7 is 13.7 mm when

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folded, so it's going to bulge out of your pocket more so than another phone.

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You know, maybe that's a selling point for some people. I don't know. You like

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what you see?

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No, the Flip 7 starts at 1,100 bucks,

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but there's also a Flip 7 FE for 900

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bucks in exchange for slightly smaller displays, less RAM, and a smaller

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battery. But while the Fold 7 has a Snapdragon 8 Elite inside, the Flip 7s

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have Exynos chips. And between that and

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the pocket thing, I just don't see the appeal. But it wasn't just phones today.

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Samsung also unveiled the $350 Galaxy Watch 8 with the circle in a squirle

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look that they call a cushion design. Whatever you say, Samsung. And the $500

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Watch 8 Classic, which adds a rotating bezel and a quick action button. And

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maybe you don't think of any of this as as that cool, but Google certainly liked

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it enough to give Samsung users first dibs on integrating Google Search AI

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mode into the Circletoarch feature. Now,

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if you do think they're cool, while I do not want you to pre-order anything ever,

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the biz team told me to tell you there are links in the description if you

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absolutely must pre-order. Don't do it. But the links are there. But don't.

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the description. Now, for some quick bits, which are much more important.

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Some of these I did include mostly as like PSAs. So, the sarcasm only goes so

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far. Google is finally rolling out a long promised Gmail feature that will

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help users automatically manage email subscriptions, which is good. In classic

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Google style, though, there's always something bad to go along with it.

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Gemini will now have access to your third party apps on Android, even if you

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previously told it not to do that in the settings. I think you have to go back in

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and turn it off again. Even Google's own email about this seemed confused about

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whether that's actually happening or not, which in my mind just counts as

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another bad thing, even if the first bad thing isn't happening. I don't know how

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that math works out either, and I'm not going to check. Speaking of AI nonsense,

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American researchers showed that prompting AI with a bunch of nonsense is

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a fairly effective way to make it ignore its own safeguards. Nonsense like that

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is exactly why OpenAI partnered with the American Federation of Teachers to

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launch the National Academy for AI Instruction, where presumably smart

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people will figure out how the hell we integrate AI into education without

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churning out graduates who are fully educated in how to prompt AI to write

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the correct answer and nothing else. Yeah, AI is here to stay and NVIDIA is

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loving it. They hit a market cap of $4 trillion this week, becoming the first

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company to do so before their stock came back down a bit because even the

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investors are like 4 trillion. Okay, let's calm down. The Switch 2 can work

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with thirdparty docs and webcams. So, their person I assume was adamant about

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the opposite being true. The Verge reports that new firmware updates are

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here or on the way from companies like Elgato for their webcams, Aver Media for

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their compact docks, and Viter, who sells a battery bank and dock intended

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to work with their headmounted displays like this one that they call the beast.

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Finally, the beast for gaming, streaming, and work. Ah, finally. The

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FTC's click to cancel rule has been blocked by a federal appeals court after

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first being introduced by former FTC chair Lena Khan back in October. The

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rule would have forced companies to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as

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it is to sign up for one, which seems uncontroversial, but in this day and

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age, all bets are off. I don't know

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where former FTC chair Lena Khan is right now, but wherever she is,

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she's based. An investigation by John Tuckner of Security Annex has revealed

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hundreds of browser extensions installed by nearly 1 million users that

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essentially add their machines to a massive botnet to scrape the web for

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advertisers. Not only is it pretty sleazy, it also makes the users machines

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more vulnerable to cyber attacks. So check the list for any extensions that

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look familiar. We got a linked in our news sources. And if you find one, yes,

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feel bad. What are you just clicking on random links on the internet or

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something? This isn't Yahoo Geio Cities. It's dangerous out there. And Twitter

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founder Jack Dorsey has announced an encrypted messaging app called Bit Chat

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that avoids routing messages through the internet. Instead, only sending them

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through Bluetooth to devices within a range of reportedly 300 m or about 984

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ft. It's pretty large, although planned updates could extend the range even

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further. While many of the headlines are calling it a WhatsApp rival, it's

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actually more like something that could be used by secret agent type people who

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agree to meet at the train tracks but don't actually meet. They just stand

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across the platform from each other texting while they do little glances

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like did you get that? Did you get that? I

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sent it. The look at your phone.

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Shh. The app is in beta, so be aware. Even Dorsy says it hasn't been properly

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security tested yet. And indeed, Alex Ratosia has already identified a

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possible man-in-the-middle attack. So maybe just wait a bit to chat with this.

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But don't wait to come back on Friday for more tech news. Or I mean, well, you

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will have to wait because it's not Friday yet. But uh but trust me, we're

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all really upset about