A must view for anyone who uses (used, in my case) AI as a fact checker for sorting out the truth of political claims
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I don’t watch lengthy videos as a rule, because reading transcripts is so much faster, but Raymond Ibrahim’s takedown of GROK and forcing it to concede that it had initially given a politically popular, completely untrue answer to his question was an absolute eye-opener for me, and I watched it in its entirety. Watching the process unfold, seeing how the AI is forced back, step-by-step until it has to finally surrender and admit what it was up to is fascinating viewing. Well worth the time.
Ibrahim starts off by showing a one-minute video currently making the rounds about the wonderful gift of famine relief supplies and cash to the Irish in 1847, an act of charity still celebrated in Ireland today. Ibrahim then asks GROK whether the story’s accurate; “Oh, yes”, GROK affirms, “and thoroughly documented — an act of pure charity by the Sultan of Turkey”.
So that’s the first answer, and as Ibrahim points out, the casual reader would accept that and move on. I know I would have, but Ibrahim is a scholar of Islam, and has the knowledge to keep probing and asking pointed questions. Over the course of 40 minutes GROK retreats, first to an acknowledgement that well, maybe it was 80% charity, 20% realpolitik, then grudgingly admits that 50/50 was more accurate, and then finally confesses that it was 100% a PR scheme, cooked up by Britain and Turkey to convince the British public to support their government’s aid to Turkey while the Russians were threatening.
Here’s a snap shot I took of GROK’s surrender.
