Grok calls care for transgendered youth "child abuse".

[applegrove]

https://newsie.social/@servelan/115379154752674277

[MiHale]

1. Grok can go swallow an EMP.

[multigraincracker]

2. Just checked my RedLetter Bible

and could not find and words about that. Did I miss it?

[Celerity]

3. The actual article: X's AI assistant Grok claims gender-affirming care for trans youth is 'child abuse'

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok claimed gender-affirming care for trans kids is “child abuse” shortly after the X owner and tech billionaire claimed doctors providing it ‘mutilate’ children.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/15/x-grok-trans-gender-affirming-care/

The AI-generated statement, and Musk’s comments, came in response to a study published by University of Buckingham politics professor Eric Kaufmann, which stated the number of young Americans identifying as a trans or queer has declined.

The Gen Z figures, cited from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) and Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) surveys amongst other statistics, outlines the number of trans youth at university level has dropped from seven percent in 2023 to under four percent while students identifying as not heterosexual dropped by around 10 points during the same period.

Kaufmann, who previously called anti-LGBTQ+ Florida governor Ron DeSantis the “future of conservatism” and labelled so-called ‘woke ideas’ the “a battle for the foundations of our civilisation”, claimed the decrease is because “trans and queer are going out of fashion among young people” and that such identities are “declining in popularity with each new cohort”.

“Despite high correlations between sexual/gender identity and political attitudes within individuals, the over-time trend in gender and sexuality seems relatively independent of political, cultural and religious beliefs.Improving mental health, however, appears to be part of the explanation for the decline of BTQ+ identification,” Kaufmann claimed.

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[AZJonnie]

4. The one positive here is that if you mess with AI's programming to force it to reply in specific

"politically correct" fashion (whether that "correctness" is defined by left or right wing terms/agendas) I strongly suspect it will start fucking up in all kinds of unexpected ways (like calling itself MechaHitler) which will in turn cause serious (like, paying) users to reject it as "not useful". The most popular ones will, in the end, be the ones that are politically neutral.

I will also say that all AI's are highly suggestible, so if you ask "Is XYC ABC?" it is very likely to conclude YOU think it is, and then tell you what you want to hear