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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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davedx ◴[11 Jul 25 06:18 UTC] No.44528899[source]▶
> I think there is a good chance this behavior is unintended!

That's incredibly generous of you, considering "The response should not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect" is still in the prompt despite the "open source repo" saying it was removed.

Maybe, just maybe, Grok behaves the way it does because its owner has been explicitly tuning it - in the system prompt, or during model training itself - to be this way?

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1. mirzap ◴[11 Jul 25 06:37 UTC] No.44529001[source]▶
They removed it from Grok 3, but it is still there in Grok 4 system prompt, check this: https://x.com/elder_plinius/status/1943171871400194231
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2. yorwba ◴[11 Jul 25 06:52 UTC] No.44529073[source]▶
Which means that whoever is responsible for updating https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts neglected to include Grok 4.
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3. sjsdaiuasgdia ◴[11 Jul 25 11:04 UTC] No.44530768[source]▶
That repo sat untouched for almost 2 months after it was originally created as part of damage control after Grok couldn't stop talking about South African genocide.

It's had a few changes lately, but I have zero confidence that the contents of that repo fully match / represent completely what is actually used in prod.