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

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724 points simonw | 2 comments | 11 Jul 25 00:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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marcusb ◴[11 Jul 25 01:22 UTC] No.44527530[source]▶
This reminds me in a way of the old Noam Chomsky/Tucker Carlson exchange where Chomsky says to Carlson:

  "I’m sure you believe everything you’re saying. But what I’m saying is that if you believed something different, you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting."
Simon may well be right - xAI might not have directly instructed Grok to check what the boss thinks before responding - but that's not to say xAI wouldn't be more likely to release a model that does agree with the boss a lot and privileges what he has said when reasoning.
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ImHereToVote[dead post] ◴[11 Jul 25 07:36 UTC] No.44529331[source]▶
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ookdatnog ◴[11 Jul 25 07:47 UTC] No.44529392[source]▶
In this context it seems pretty wild to assume that OP was intentionally deceptive instead of just writing from memory and making a mistake.
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1. ImHereToVote ◴[11 Jul 25 08:02 UTC] No.44529497[source]▶
You think too poorly of OP. I won't insult his intelligence by claiming he can't to a 5 second Google search before posting. He got the quote verbatim. Clearly he searched.
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2. lukan ◴[11 Jul 25 08:16 UTC] No.44529564[source]▶
I frequently quote stuff from memory and it happens I quote wrong. Then I am not lying, but making a misstake. Most people do that in my experience. HN guidelines even say, assume good faith. You assume bad faith, that drags the entire conversation down .