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Some mainstream reporters, meanwhile, have demonstrated that they do not know or care to know the first thing about by writing articles based on their conversations with Grok as if they can teach us anything. Large language models are not sentient, are not human, do not have thoughts or feelings, and therefore cannot “apologize” or explain how or why any of this is happening. And Grok certainly does not speak for X the company or for Elon Musk. But of course major outlets such as Bari Weiss’s CBS News wrote that Grok “acknowledged ‘lapses in safeguards’ on the platform that allowed users to generate digitally altered, sexualized photos of minors.” The CBS News article notes that Grok said it was “urgently fixing” the problem and that “xAI has safeguards, but improvements are ongoing to block such requests entirely.” It added that “Grok has independently taken some responsibility for the content,” which is a fully absurd, nonfactual sentence because Grok cannot “independently take some responsibility” for anything, and chatbots cannot and do not know the inner workings of the companies who create them and specifically the humans who manage them. There were dozens of articles explaining that “Grok apologizes,” which, again, is not a thing that Grok can do.

“That early-90's black metal thing seemed so faked when it came around.
I remember when Darkthrone were here to record their first album, and Uffe of Entombed tried his best to help them. Then we had a barbecue. We acted as usual, drank beer and raised hell. The Norwegians acted like nerds, especially Glue (Nagell, aka Fenriz), who walked around in a ridiculous cowboy hat and insisted on being called 'Hank Amarillo.' Some months later you could see the same guy with a new name and a new image, talking shit about us. What the fuck was that?” —ANDERS SCHULTZ, UNLEASHED

"I got to know Gylve early on, and had a great relationship with him and Darkthrone. They in fact stayed at my place when they recorded their first album. Then suddenly all the guys in Norway just turned their backs on us, and I have hardly spoken to any of them since. It's all just so strange." —UFFE CEDERLUND, MORBID/NIHILIST/ENTOMBED/DISFEAR

"I was through with extreme metal when black metal came around. That just seemed boring, with no gigs and hateful attitudes. I could feel nothing for that."
Despite the reluctance of some, Aarseth's ideas and the events in Norway of course infected the Swedish scene. Above all, one interview by Robban Becirovic with Mayhem's leader Euronymous caused an unimaginable impact.
"I es to some extent im to blame for the black metal trend here in Sweden. That interview we did with Mayhem just changed everything. Black metal destroyed much of the buddy thing that was going on in the death metal scene. Everybody suddenly wanted to appear so fucking evil with an agenda of satanism, racism, fascism, and other stupid things. The slogans and views of Euronymous' were recycled over and over again by kids who tried to be cool."
-ROBBAN BECIROVIC, CLOSE-UP MAGAZINE