From the «time to burn down big tech and its arrogant shitbag leaders» department:
Title: Grok blocked results saying Musk and Trump “spread misinformation” Author: Wes Davis
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 23:33:35 +0000
Link:
https://www.theverge.com/news/618109/grok-blocked-elon-musk-trump-misinformation
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Grok, Elon Musk’s ChatGPT competitor, temporarily refused to respond with “sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation,” according
to[2] xAI’s head of engineering, Igor Babuschkin. After Grok users noticed that
the chatbot had been given instructions to not respond with those results, Babuschkin blamed[3] an unnamed, ex-OpenAI employee at xAI for updating Grok’s
system prompt without approval.
In response to questions on X, Babuschkin said[2] that Grok’s system prompt (the internal rules that govern how an AI responds to queries) is publicly visible “because we believe users should be able to see what it is we’re asking
Grok.” He said[4] “an employee pushed the change” to the system prompt “because
they thought it would help, but this is obviously not in line with our values.”
Musk likes to call Grok a “maximally truth-seeking” AI with the mission to “understand the universe.” Since the latest Grok-3 model was released[5], the
chatbot has said[6] that President Trump, Musk, and Vice President JD Vance are “doing the most harm to America.” Musk’s engineers have also intervened to stop
Grok from saying that Musk and Trump deserve the death penalty[7].
"Ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread
misinformation."
This is part of the Grok prompt that returns search results.
https://t.co/OLiEhV7njs[8]pic.twitter.com/d1NJbs7C2B[9]
— Wyatt walls (@lefthanddraft) February 23, 2025[10]
Links:
[1]:
https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25732434/DCD_Trump_Elon.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0,0,100,100 (image)
[2]:
https://x.com/ibab/status/1893778039634563094 (link)
[3]:
https://x.com/ibab/status/1893774017376485466 (link)
[4]:
https://x.com/ibab/status/1893778842399154463 (link)
[5]:
https://www.theverge.com/command-line-newsletter/617780/grok-3-elon-musk-ai-race-chatgpt (link)
[6]:
https://bsky.app/profile/alexeheath.com/post/3liq3xuo2mc2e (link)
[7]:
https://www.theverge.com/news/617799/elon-musk-grok-ai-donald-trump-death-penalty (link)
[8]:
https://t.co/OLiEhV7njs (link)
[9]:
https://t.co/d1NJbs7C2B (link)
[10]:
https://twitter.com/lefthanddraft/status/1893681902957076687?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw (link)
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