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539 points donohoe | 4 comments | 09 Jul 25 14:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.632s | source
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ceejayoz ◴[09 Jul 25 14:59 UTC] No.44510830[source]▶
I guess the Nazi chatbot was the last straw. Amazed she lasted this long, honestly.
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Bender ◴[09 Jul 25 15:09 UTC] No.44510978[source]▶
Not defending Elon or the infobot but my theory is that by leaving that LLM unfiltered people have learned how to gamify and manipulate it into having a fascist slant. I could even guess which groups of people are doing it but I will let them take credit and it's not likely actual neo-nazi's, they are too dumb and on too many drugs to manipulate an infobot. These groups like to LARP to piss everyone off and they often succeed. If I am right it is a set of splintered groups formerly referred to generically as The Internet Hate Machine but they have (d)evolved into something worse that even 4chan could not tolerate.
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1. coolKid721 ◴[09 Jul 25 15:34 UTC] No.44511355[source]▶
It's just the prompt: https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/commit/c5de4a14feb50...

People who don't understand llms think saying don't shy away from making claims that are politically incorrect means it won't PC. In reality saying that just makes things associated with politically incorrect more likely. The /pol/ board is called politically incorrect, the ideas people "call" politically incorrect most of all are not Elon's vague centrist stuff it's the extreme stuff. LLMs just track probable relations between tokens, not meaning, it having this result based on that prompt is obvious.

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2. zemo ◴[09 Jul 25 16:07 UTC] No.44511734[source]▶
it's almost like Grok takes "politically incorrect" to be synonymous with racist.
3. pvg ◴[09 Jul 25 16:17 UTC] No.44511832[source]▶
The mishap is not the chatbot accidentally getting too extreme and at odds with 'Elon's centrist stuff'. The mishap is the chatbot is too obvious and inept about Musk's intent.
4. phillipcarter ◴[09 Jul 25 16:50 UTC] No.44512236[source]▶
We have no evidence to suggest that they just made a prompt change and it dialed up the 4chan weights. This repository is a graveyard where a CI bot occasionally makes a text diff, but we have no understanding if it's connected with anything deployed live or not.