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Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"

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724 points simonw | 3 comments | 11 Jul 25 00:22 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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simonw ◴[11 Jul 25 00:51 UTC] No.44527366[source]▶
I think the wildest thing about the story may be that it's possible this is entirely accidental.

LLM bugs are weird.

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mac-attack ◴[11 Jul 25 01:12 UTC] No.44527469[source]▶
Curious if there is a threshold/sign that would convince you that the last week of Grok snafus are features instead of a bugs, or warrant Elon no longer getting the benefit of the doubt.

Ignoring the context of the past month where he has repeatedly said he plans on 'fixing' the bot to align with his perspective feels like the LLM world's equivalent of "to me it looked he was waving awkwardly", no?

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simonw ◴[11 Jul 25 01:47 UTC] No.44527666[source]▶
He's definitely trying to make it less "woke". The way he's going about it reminds me of Sideshow Bob stepping on rakes.
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1. wredcoll ◴[11 Jul 25 03:16 UTC] No.44528107[source]▶
What do you mean, the way he's going about it? He wanted it to be less woke, it started praising hitler, that's literally the definition of less woke.
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2. drdeca ◴[11 Jul 25 06:02 UTC] No.44528828[source]▶
That is not “literally the definition of less woke”.

It may imply being less “woke”. And a sudden event quickly killing everyone on earth does imply fewer people dying of cancer.

If X implies Y, and one wants Y, this doesn’t not imply that one wants X.

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3. notahacker ◴[11 Jul 25 07:15 UTC] No.44529216[source]▶
In practice, "being less woke" means "I like to vice signal how edgy I am", particularly in the context of Elon Musk. Doesn't get more vice-signally than calling itself MechaHitler...