A tale of two AIs.

Stereotyping, polarizing, swastika-waving, hate-frothing; real fist-in-the-gut-from-your-black-shirted-former-friend kind of stuff.

Talking, of course, about Grok, the Elon Musk-invented “chatbot uber alles,” launching a virulent antisemitic spew.

Probably shouldn’t come as any big surprise. 

In addition to Elon’s promise that Grok is a "truth-seeking AI companion for unfiltered answers," he’s also boasting about it being trained on “non-PC media.” 

Well done, your XXXellency. Mission definitely, if a shade jack-bootedly, accomplished.

So, I’m going to do what the people on my side of the shtetl tracks always do. Find the laugh in the moment.

In this case, it comes courtesy of something of a split-screen moment.  

Just after reading Grok’s view of Hitler being the right guy to “act decisively” with regard to those of my lineage, I got a post from Shelly Palmer, the top-tier technology writer, talking about building an app that, from prompt to go-live, took all of nine minutes. You’ll find it here: https://lnkd.in/gXPWxqdj 

As you’ll see, it’s an AI-enabled Yiddish curse generator.  

Talk about the perfect gift for your New York, LA, or Tel Aviv-bound friends, acquaintances, and clients.

If this isn’t a genius contribution to the modern zeitgeist, Borscht Belt humor, and, best of all, the raging AI debate, then I don’t know my compute from my computer.

Much less my tuchus from a hole in the wall. 

Testing it out, I get to: Zolst esn matse in bet dayn vayb zol esn krekerlekh un du zolst zikh valgern in di breklekh!  

Translation: “May you eat matzah in bed, your wife should eat crackers, and you should roll in the crumbs!” 

Not bad in Catskill comedy terms, which, in fairness, was not exactly your paragon of gender sensitivity. 

Here’s another:  Khasene hobn zolstu mit dem malekh-hamoves tokhter un zi zol meynen az du bist azoy vunderlekh az zi kumt tsu gast yeden tog!”

Which means: “May you marry the daughter of the Angel of Death, and may she think you're so wonderful that she comes to visit every day!”

Plus, there’s this: press a button and AI will even read it aloud, just so you know how to deliver the curse with maximum acidity.

And here you thought AI had no redeeming social value.

My thought: you take these two AI events and recognize both represent a fork in the AI road.  

Question is: Will we take it?