U.S. may have overthrown Venezuela due to chat with Grok

tty456 43 points 8 comments October 03, 2026
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trencedamp

Unsurprising. I think we all suspect this is happening. Although I've not spent any time on daily beast, now after a minute or two scrolling other stories it seems quite sensationalist and tabloid like

oytech

https://archive.ph/ZT1VY

armchairhacker

What do Venezuelans currently think? Unlike the Iran War, this hasn’t wasted significant resources or otherwise affected US citizens, so I don’t see why they should care outside compassion…which includes listening to the recipients.

bananaflag

> AI chatbots, however, are not capable of thought or reasoning. Its answers to his questions simply reflect the material on which it has been trained. They would be more credible if they did not add paragraphs like these. They could instead say something in the vein of "AI chatbots cannot be trusted, in the same way human sycophants, no matter how smart they are, cannot be trusted". But they would have to abandon their precious human exceptionalism.

vasusai

Not exactly government-by-LLM but feels like we're moving that way.

eucryphia

The US kidnapped its socialist dictator, leaving the regime otherwise intact. Hardly an “overthrow.”

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