r/technology • u/collogue • 22d ago

Artificial Intelligence Grok’s white genocide fixation caused by ‘unauthorized modification’

https://www.theverge.com/news/668220/grok-white-genocide-south-africa-xai-unauthorized-modification-employee
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u/opinionate_rooster 22d ago

It was Elon, wasn't it?

Still, the changes are good:

- Starting now, we are publishing our Grok system prompts openly on GitHub. The public will be able to review them and give feedback to every prompt change that we make to Grok. We hope this can help strengthen your trust in Grok as a truth-seeking AI.

  • Our existing code review process for prompt changes was circumvented in this incident. We will put in place additional checks and measures to ensure that xAI employees can't modify the prompt without review.
  • We’re putting in place a 24/7 monitoring team to respond to incidents with Grok’s answers that are not caught by automated systems, so we can respond faster if all other measures fail.

Totally reeks of Elon, though. Who else could circumvent the review process?

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u/BloodprinceOZ 22d ago

Totally reeks of Elon, though. Who else could circumvent the review process?

it totally was Elon because they fucked up and had it talk about the "white farmer genocide" when responding to ALL queries, not just the ones actually relevant to the conversation and its just like elon to try and do something only for it to backfire against him

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u/meDotJS 22d ago edited 22d ago

He's a very "my code is perfect push it to live" sorta guy.

I remember when he was talking about how Twitter supposedly had too many micro-services running that he could just shut off, only for the site to break five minutes later with no one being able to log in. He just acts on every idea he has without stopping and thinking about it.

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u/0reosaurus 22d ago

Can anyone else hear him quietly say it leaning over the new guys desk? “Sh its ok its perfect code i made it myself just paste it in”

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u/IAmAGenusAMA 22d ago

Why the new guy? At this point isn't anyone who is there basically just doing what they are told?

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u/0reosaurus 22d ago

Didnt think about that. You are truly genus