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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   A couple of days ago I posted a blog article on "The Zombification of   
   America", on how so many hitherto respected US academic institutions   
   had mindlessly acceded to the demands of Musk and Trump to change   
   their curricula and fire members of staff whose teaching was not   
   deemed sufficiently politically correct (by the standards of Musk and   
   Trump).   
      
   You can see the blog post here:   
      
      
      
   A friend then fed the content of the blog post to Grok, the AI   
   component of Elon Musk's exTwitter, and asked for an opinion on it.   
      
   You can read this opinion in the comments to the blog post.   
      
   Grok's opinion, as far as I can tell, is certainly not politically   
   correct by the standards of Musk and Trump, and so it seems that Grok   
   is engaging in the crime of "thinking for itself".   
      
   How ironic it is that in response to an article criticising the   
   leaders of top academic institutions for behaving like bots or zombies   
   in unquestioningly and mindlessly following the dictates of Trump and   
   Musk, an actual bot should display more ability to "think for itself"   
   than the human actors.   
      
   And most ironic of all, that bot belongs to Musk himself.   
      
      
      
      
   --   
   Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa   
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