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Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts

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Re: Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts

#11
https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/commit/c5de4a14feb50...

git revert MechaHitler

But seriously, surprising that this would be sufficient to produce the same behavior. And, frankly, the formal tone went out the window in favor of hyper-online "basedness"

Re: Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts

#12

Seems like a failure in quality control.

You mean like elons general edgelordness makes you think this wasnt intentional, or at least the intentional inclusion of what is likely a 4chan/8chan/similar corpus? What about the salute? The great white replacement theory promotion? Apartheid opinions? Allowing a mass proliferation of white nationalist and literal nazi twitter premium accounts? At some point, it has to click that musk likely shares these opinions.

Re: Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts

#13
If this screenshot isn't omitting some truly exculpatory context (I can't imagine what kind of context would justify it), it appears to be Grok advocating for truly abhorrent behavior: https://bsky.app/profile/kthorjensen.bsky.social/post/3lti7l...

Though "advocating" is probably too anthropomorphizing, I'm not sure what the right verb is for this.

Re: Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts

#14

If this screenshot isn't omitting some truly exculpatory context (I can't imagine what kind of context would justify it), it appears to be Grok advocating for truly abhorrent behavior: https://bsky.app/profile/kthorjensen.bsky.social/post/3lti7l... Though "advocating" is probably too anthropomorphizing, I'm not sure what the right verb is for this.

The first tweet visible in your screenshot is a reply to this earlier, now-deleted tweet. https://archive.is/QLAn0

Re: Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts

#15
post #12

Seems like a failure in quality control.

You mean like elons general edgelordness makes you think this wasnt intentional, or at least the intentional inclusion of what is likely a 4chan/8chan/similar corpus? What about the salute? The great white replacement theory promotion? Apartheid opinions? Allowing a mass proliferation of white nationalist and literal nazi twitter premium accounts? At some point, it has to click that musk likely shares these opinions.

The fact that X is deleting these posts suggests this was unexpected and undesired behavior. Look, I get it, you hate Musk, and we all have good reasons to do it.. I'm not defending the guy. But X is business and this is bad for business.

Re: Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts

#16

https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/commit/c5de4a14feb50... git revert MechaHitler But seriously, surprising that this would be sufficient to produce the same behavior. And, frankly, the formal tone went out the window in favor of hyper-online "basedness"

I think it’s a reasonable observation that the large scale shifts don’t seem to have any relationship to the much more subtle difference in those public system prompts which makes me think that there are ADDITIONAL non public system prompts as well.

What we just saw doesn’t match the public evidence in the git repo.

Re: Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts

#18

https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/commit/c5de4a14feb50... git revert MechaHitler But seriously, surprising that this would be sufficient to produce the same behavior. And, frankly, the formal tone went out the window in favor of hyper-online "basedness"

They have probably also been training it on extreme rightwing content to get this level of insanity

Re: Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts

#20
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean like elons general edgelordness makes you think this wasnt intentional, or at least the intentional inclusion of what is likely a 4chan/8chan/similar corpus? What about the salute? The great white replacement theory promotion? Apartheid opinions? Allowing a mass proliferation of white nationalist and literal nazi twitter premium accounts? At some point, it has to click that musk likely shares these opinions.

The fact that X is deleting these posts suggests this was unexpected and undesired behavior. Look, I get it, you hate Musk, and we all have good reasons to do it.. I'm not defending the guy. But X is business and this is bad for business.

There's a tweet from Musk a week or two ago that they were specifically training Grok to be this way, it really isn't a failure. I mean, throwing nazi salutes and shutting down foreign aid and cancer research has also been bad for Tesla's business, but nevertheless he persists.
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