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

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Post by jonnycomputer »

mdhb wrote: post #16
jonnycomputer wrote: post #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"

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.

Thank you. Exactly.

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

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Post by viraptor »

jonnycomputer wrote: post #2

Seems like a failure in quality control.

Obviously that goes beyond quality control, but it's also interesting that they don't have even a basic sanity checking harness before releases. Like a few basic questions checking both the restrictions and basic functionality. Even with their yolo approach otherwise, I'm really surprised they don't have this covered at some point of the pipeline.

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

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Post by c-hendricks »

rideontime wrote: post #10

Axios made the mistake of linking directly to X instead of archived copies; they've been manually cleaning up some of the worst offenders. Here's some archived examples, the first is the one that first went viral. https://archive.is/fJcSV https://archive.is/I3Rr7 https://archive.is/QLAn0

Oh my, that second one is so apt. "Just telling it like it is, truth ain't always comfy", god they've given it the personality of the worst people you've ever spoken to.

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

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Post by viraptor »

jonnycomputer wrote: post #15
bikezen wrote: 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.

> The fact that X is deleting these posts suggests this was unexpected and undesired behavior.

Or they communicated what they wanted to communicate already. Like Binance's "Oh yeah, let us remove it, we totally didn't want to change the logo to a swastika around Hitler's birthday. Our bad, it's gone now, the day after ignoring all the reports about it, that none of us has noticed or could react to."

(even if they didn't want to, they still communicated it given the preexisting context)

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

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Post by fakedang »

sillyfluke wrote: post #33
rideontime wrote: post #10

Axios made the mistake of linking directly to X instead of archived copies; they've been manually cleaning up some of the worst offenders. Here's some archived examples, the first is the one that first went viral. https://archive.is/fJcSV https://archive.is/I3Rr7 https://archive.is/QLAn0

It's hilarious that we've come full circle back to Facebook's discontinued racist chatbot[0] But I guess Grok being fed with even more twitter content makes it "the new and improved version." [0] https://mashable.com/article/meta-facebook-ai-chatbot-racism...

This is Tay 3.0.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)

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

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Post by 12_throw_away »

12_throw_away wrote: post #5

I don't have a Twitter account to check, but have seen multiple reports that the Grok is now referring to itself as "MechaHitler" [1-2]. Seems really, really bad. [1] https://bsky.app/profile/newseye.bsky.social/post/3ltielt5ts... [2] https://xcancel.com/StatisticUrban/status/194270254379849763...

And here is grok ... helping to plot sexual violence against some guy? (Warning, it is pretty horrific)

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/whstancil.bsky.social/post/3ltintoe...

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

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Post by arandomusername »

daedrdev wrote: post #17
jonnycomputer wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Elon seems to be a Nazi, or his views are extremely close

Ah yeah, because Nazis were big on importing millions of Indian workers.

What views of him are actually close to Nazis? Dude loves jews even

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

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Post by archagon »

arandomusername wrote: post #47
daedrdev wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Elon seems to be a Nazi, or his views are extremely close

Ah yeah, because Nazis were big on importing millions of Indian workers. What views of him are actually close to Nazis? Dude loves jews even

For someone who's totally not a Nazi, he sure keeps doing Nazi-adjacent things, such as calling people on government benefits part of the "parasite class" and supporting the AfD.

The fact that nobody is actually shocked by Grok's new behavior should be telling.

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