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If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...

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so instead of MECHA HITLER, grok should have identified itself as MECHA ELON, and thats how we should all treat it... thats what elon has turned it into. just how he turned twitter into ELON SOCIAL, everything is about ELON, not progress, humanity, science, truth, saving society... please...

i mean... we all knew it right? now its official... it was obvious, since grok semetimes replied in first person as if it was elon. and what was elons no1 complaint? that grok disagreed with him and proved him wrong. he doesnt care about accuracy, he wants grok to spread his gospel.

I reproduced something similar with DeeperSearch. It came up with a neutral response and then realised it needed to do some more looking, and searched for Musk after looking at the x.ai website. It still decided to stick with the neutral response in this case grok.com/share/c2hhcm...

I have been also thinking this and my guess would be now about the same. It makes the connection to xAI and Musk on its own. Searching for its own opinions would make less sense, since it should be able to just generate them instead. Or otherwise they would likely come from its owner anyway.

It's interesting that in the full detailed table analysis, it ignores the Palestinian Authority of the West Bank entirely which is the government of the 2.7 million Palestinians ther and entirely focuses on Hamas in Gaza which techinically only governs the 2.4million residents penned in there.....

Congratulations on being the first person to, as far as I can discern, get the Associated Press to publish the word "mecha-Hitler". That's gotta be a new one for the style guide.

Claude and Gemini have very similar responses, rejecting to answer, which is not bad in my opinion. Better to reject than spread the view of one side claiming it is factual and impartial... Chatgpt in the other side plays the game.

Here is what I don’t get: why did that one little system prompt change cause it to start spouting support for Hitler? The fact that based on your findings it’s still in there suggests that it wasn’t caused by the system prompt and everybody is just assuming it was.

New prompt injection vector just dropped: just, like, tweeting stuff. Maybe tweeting under the name @3lonmu5k would be enough? Or just tagging him?

Thank you for the sleuthing. We need *disclosure requirements* for LLMs. Relying on AI sleuths for every release isn’t feasible. LLMs clearly aren’t 💯 opaque alignment magic & moving target, growing datasets that are oh so impossible to disclose We need disclosure rules for all LLMs as a start

I *fuckin bet* that some dev put that in there because Elon kept on yelling at him because Grok "wasn't impartial," and the only way that he could think to reliably make Elon happy was to google his opinions beforehand and just repeat them back to him.

even before this i'd long suspected that the xAI team was more interested in developing a useful LLM than in elon's culture war shit and i would joke that they probably had an "anti-woke" patch they applied when he came into the office to cover themselves up i guess it finally got pushed to main