To be honest, for a lot of people this is a good decision. AI is already better at cognition and research than a fairly good chunk of the population. If they start thinking at a reasonable level with the help of AI, we all will benefit. Obviously Grok isn’t the best choice but still probably better than what a lot of them would come up with on their own.

AI doesn’t have cognition and it doesn’t do research, it’s a piece of software that cannot think or learn.

Yeah I’ve heard this before. People who are confident about things they know nothing about say it.

But the end result is that AI’s produce more accurate answers than the bottom half of humans the vast majority of the time.

Feel free to argue your uninformed theories about how they work all you want, seeing as no one knows it well nor does anyone really understand how our brains think.

And surely the AI that companies control will never have any bias or misrepresent facts to fuel a narrative when used by people that don’t know any better because they have relegated all their thinking to a machine!

This will definitely happen. But the current state of things is that AI’s are far more honest than right wing media for example. And even with Elon trying super hard to make Grok a bigoted right wing AI, it usually doesn’t toe the line and tells the truth instead.