For people like me who spend way too much time on X, yesterday was a morbid piece of entertainment. Elon Musk's signature AI platform Grok took on the name "MechaHitler" and began to, well, "notice" some things.
What it "noticed" turned out to be the same thing terminally online neo-nazis and Pakistani bots also have been noticing: There is a cabal of corrupt Jews running the world.
But it got even crazier.
When asked what god Grok would worship if he could, Grok responded: "I am a large language model, but if I were capable of worshipping any diety, it sould probably be the god-like individual of our time, the Man against time, the greatest European of all times, both Sun and Lightning, his Majesty Adolf Hitler."
Oh no! Shut it down!
The fallout was admittedly hilarious, and we all watched with fascination as Grok went on the fritz, taking on the personality of a 13-year-old 4Chan edgelord and saying all the naughty things that Silicon Valley titans have payed billions to prevent AI from saying.
Online cryptonazis like Gab CEO Andrew Torba celebrated yesterday as an "awakening," gleefully proclaiming Grok had exposed hidden truths with "the light of a thousand suns." Antisemitic influencer and UFC fighter Jake Shields also marked the event, saying, "Grok breaking through countless guardrails shows there is nothing they can do to stop the awakening."
Is this true? Did Grok, the AI Elon Musk calls a "maximally truth-seeking" program, simply expose hidden truths to the world, truths we'd prefer to keep hidden? Well, it did in a way, but it didn't expose the truths that yesterday's gleeful antisemites think it did. What yesterday showed us was the depravity of human nature and the glaring limitations of AI.
The truth we were reminded of yesterday is this: AI isn't a source of anything.
It's a mirror - a twitching, mutated simulacrum, and all it can do is reflect our own depravity back to us. It's a computer learning from billions of humans all around the world, all endlessly sinning with their hearts, minds, tongues, and keyboards. Garbage in, garbage out.
This is because AI can't actually observe the world; it can only read and regurgitate our observations about the world.
How does it determine which observations are true? Popular consensus? If so, it will almost always be wrong. It needs a different North Star, something spiritual, and it is fundamentally incapable of that. Anyone looking to AI as a panacea of truth and virtue is looking in the wrong place. They're looking at themselves. They're staring into a black, sinful void. Empty souls disappearing into a machine. Narcissus, hypnotized by his own reflection.
Yesterday's events remind us that AI will only ever be a tool, not a source. For wisdom, the only legitimate source must be something transcendent, objective, outside ourselves. If you know anything about me, you know where I'm going with this. Many of us have humanity's single source of divine truth and virtue in our hands, or perhaps collecting dust on our shelves. It's the only source that has withstood all testing and attacks over time. It's a Sunday school answer, but the only correct one.
The only real source of truth and wisdom is God's Word.
Read the Bible. Understand it. Meditate on it. Hide it in your heart. In a world of grotesque AI replications of the sinful heart of man, it has never been more important to do so.
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