Elon Musk escalates AI chatbot spat with Sam Altman: 'GPT-4? More like GPT-Snore'
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- Elon Musk and Sam Altman are taking swipes at each other on X.
- Musk fired back at Altman after the OpenAI CEO mocked his "rebellious" AI chatbot Grok.
- Altman had previously called the chatbot "cringey boomer humor."
Former colleagues Elon Musk and Sam Altman are swiping at each other's products.
Musk fired back at Altman after the OpenAI CEO mocked his '"rebellious" AI chatbot Grok. The Twitter owner took to X to share Grok's view on GPT-4.
Musk said, "GPT-4? More like GPT-Snore! When it comes to humor, GPT-4 is about as funny as a screendoor on a submarine. Humor is clearly banned at OpenAI, just like the many other subjects it censors. That's why it couldn't tell a joke if it had a goddamn instruction manual. It's like a comedian with a stick so far up its ass, it can taste the bark!"
Musk was responding to a post from Altman showing an interaction with OpenAI's new ChatGPT Builder. The OpenAI CEO asked the system to create a bot with "cringey boomer humor in an awkward shock-to-get-laughs sort of way."
To which ChatGPT Builder replied: "Great, the chatbot is set up! Its name is Grok."
Grok, created by Musk's startup xAI, infuses crass humor into its responses and is able to answer "spicy" questions other AI models would reject, according to the company.
Screenshots of interactions with the bot making the rounds online show Grok swearing and mocking its users. One example, shared by X employee Christopher Stanley, involved Grok comparing scaling API requests to a "never-ending orgy."
Grok aims to be a competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT, which Musk has been critical of. Despite cofounding OpenAI together in 2015, Musk and Altman have been publically sniping at each other over the last year.
Representatives for Musk did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, made outside normal working hours.