X owner Elon Musk renewed his dire warnings about Big Tech’s approach to artificial intelligence programming.
Musk shared via X his appearance at the May 2024 Viva Technology forum, where he warmed that Big Tech platforms could prioritize “political correctness” over “truth.” On Wednesday, the tech mogul reiterated this warning, affirming that this was still a “major concern.”
Musk affirmed in the May video, “The concern I have [and this may seem like a small concern but I think it’s actually a very big issue] is that they are not maximally truth-seeking. They’re pandering to political correctness.”
Major concern https://t.co/NIib0Xj0r8
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 26, 2024
The discussion primarily revolved around the Google Gemini and Meta AI programming, and the scandals surrounding their AI-generated responses to certain prompts.
Musk recalled an instance of what he described as political correctness. “When Google Gemini came out, one of the questions people asked it… ‘Which is …