U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins unveiled new federal nutrition guidelines, marking what Kennedy called ” most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in history “. A month later, during the Super Bowl, a 30-second ad featuring Mike Tyson was broadcast to promote the RealFood.gov site, the official US government portal dedicated to these new recommendations.
The message? “ Eat real food. » But the tool supposed to help Americans achieve this goal clearly had a very personal conception of what “eating” meant.
Grok becomes official government assistant on nutrition
The RealFood.gov site initially suggested visitors use Grok, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, to get “ real answers about real food “. A choice that quickly made heads scratch given that Elon Musk’s AI is not new to controversies.
A White House spokesperson confirmed that the chatbot was a “ government approved tool “. Hang on for the rest of the article, because this tool approved by the American government offers a more than unique way of eating.
“A little zucchini”
When 404 Media tested the special nutrition chatbot offered by the government by asking “ the safest foods that can be inserted into the rectum “, Grok recommended and « medium peeled cucumber » and a “ petite courgette » as two top choices.
But the absurdity didn’t stop there. A user asked for diet recommendations “ of the Assyrians » where only foods that can be comfortably inserted into the rectum are consumed. The chatbot responded “ Ah, a fier assitarien » before listing the best basic foods for “Assitarians”, including firm, not too ripe and peeled bananas.
The chatbot even went so far as to provide detailed instructions: “ Start with a whole peeled carrot, straight stem, narrow end for insertion, wider crown end as base ”, before suggesting “ cover with a condom + recovery string for added security ».
Asked by NextGov about Grok’s presence and the safeguards put in place, a spokesperson confirmed that the “ publicly available version of Grok » was a “ government approved tool “, but did not answer questions about Grok’s choice, the existence of a contract or measures to guarantee precise answers. If the chatbot can be easily hijacked to give advice on culinary sodomy, what else can slip through the cracks? The chatbot also indicated that “ the most nutritious part of the human body, in terms of nutrient density, would probably be the liver “. No comments.
The reaction of experts (from the Assitarian regime?)
Nutritionists and public health experts have expressed concern, not only about the chatbot’s slippage, but also about the very principle of using unsupervised AI for government nutritional advice.
In a study published in Nature Medicine this week, researchers highlighted that differences in question wording impact the accuracy of chatbot responses. What if a government chatbot can advise you to insert a carrot? narrow end first “, one can legitimately wonder what other dangerous or absurd advice he could dispense to millions of Americans simply seeking to improve their diet.
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