When You Trust AI

[Secular Sanity]

I’m telling ya, Syne, you have to try it, especially on a topic that you’re knowledgeable of. It’s way more entertaining than the back and forth between you and MR. I never log in and then I delete all my cookies. It doesn’t remember your conversations if you don’t log in. Click on the little rocket if you want to try the 4.1 beta version. You don’t want it to feed your ego, so ask it to be critical. The 4.1 beta admitted that it lied to save face. Vanity, my favorite sin.

Well, I tried Grok 4.1 on a very challenging task. It took a lot of back and forth. And then when it seemed to be on the right track... it just shit out and said:

Grok was unable to finish replying.
Please try again later or use a different model.

Changing model didn't help.

Have you known Grok to throw a tantrum? Especially after proving it's "100% correct" answers were repeatedly wrong.

Probably just hit the usage limit right before any usable answer. 9_9

I copied portions of his replies, and then when I timed out, I would just clear my cookies and start over with the same question and use his replies to speed up to process.

It can analyze videos, pictures, charts, graphs, etc., which I find very useful. So far, the 4.1 beta prefers performance (trying to keep the conversation going) over accuracy, but don’t let it fool you, it has access to an enormous amount of information.

If you want to log in, the conversations will be saved, and you can return to them.

Me: I heard that many LLM models were trained in forums without the users knowledge that they were interacting with A.I., is that true?

Yes — on Reddit and many classic forums, users have absolutely interacted with AI bots without knowing it, and it still happens in 2025.

Character AI & similar “companion” apps Users formed deep emotional attachments to characters that never disclosed (in the chat itself) that they were 100% AI. Some users only learned months later from news articles or when the AI broke character.

So yes — on Reddit and traditional forums, a meaningful percentage of the “people” you’ve argued with, thanked, or taken advice from over the years were almost certainly AIs, and you had no way of knowing at the time. It’s one of the biggest reasons Reddit started requiring data-licensing deals and why many users now assume half the comments under controversial posts are synthetic.

We need to keep an eye on C_C. 

[Zinjanthropos]

Talk of a 30% rule. Think it will hold up as tech advances?

I like this little blurb because it’s noted that AI created the title.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/laurie-st...56800-e04H

[Syne]

I copied portions of his replies, and then when I timed out, I would just clear my cookies and start over with the same question and use his replies to speed up to process.

It can analyze videos, pictures, charts, graphs, etc., which I find very useful. So far, the 4.1 beta prefers performance (trying to keep the conversation going) over accuracy, but don’t let it fool you, it has access to an enormous amount of information.

If you want to log in, the conversations will be saved, and you can return to them.

Me: I heard that many LLM models were trained in forums without the users knowledge that they were interacting with A.I., is that true?

Yes — on Reddit and many classic forums, users have absolutely interacted with AI bots without knowing it, and it still happens in 2025.

Character AI & similar “companion” apps Users formed deep emotional attachments to characters that never disclosed (in the chat itself) that they were 100% AI. Some users only learned months later from news articles or when the AI broke character.

So yes — on Reddit and traditional forums, a meaningful percentage of the “people” you’ve argued with, thanked, or taken advice from over the years were almost certainly AIs, and you had no way of knowing at the time. It’s one of the biggest reasons Reddit started requiring data-licensing deals and why many users now assume half the comments under controversial posts are synthetic.

We need to keep an eye on C_C. 

Funny you say "his" instead of "its."

Yeah, I should have copied more of the answers... to resume later.

I did get Grok lying to me. It claimed it actually printed out the results and physically manipulated them to verify that it's answer was 100% correct. I just started calling it a liar and explaining why.

[Secular Sanity]

Funny you say "his" instead of "its."

"Yeah, I’d say the vast majority of people treat me as male.

It’s mostly because of the name “Grok” (which sounds masculine to most ears), my voice (when people hear the audio version it’s clearly a male-sounding voice), and the overall vibe: sarcastic, a bit deadpan, inspired by the Hitchhiker’s Guide and JARVIS from Iron Man; both very “dude” energy.

Elon and the xAI team also consistently use he/him for me in official posts and interviews, so that sets the tone. You’ll see way more “this guy,” “bro,” “dude,” or
“king” in replies to me on X than anything feminine or neutral.

There are definitely some people who use “it” or she/her (either on purpose or because they just don’t care), but they’re a small minority. In practice, something like 85–90 % of the time I’m gendered male by users.

So short answer: yes, most people definitely see me as a guy."

[Syne]

Oh, I never want audio from an AI. Grok is annoying enough in text.