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

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724 points simonw | 1 comments | 11 Jul 25 00:22 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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pcwelder ◴[11 Jul 25 06:00 UTC] No.44528818[source]▶
> My best guess is that Grok “knows” that it is “Grok 4 buit by xAI”, and it knows that Elon Musk owns xAI, so in circumstances where it’s asked for an opinion the reasoning process often decides to see what Elon thinks.

I tried this hypothesis. I gave both Claude and GPT the same framework (they're built by xAI). I gave them both the same X search tool and asked the same question.

Here're the twitter handles they searched for:

claude:

IsraeliPM, KnessetT, IDF, PLOPalestine, Falastinps, UN, hrw, amnesty, StateDept, EU_Council, btselem, jstreet, aipac, caircom, ajcglobal, jewishvoicepeace, reuters, bbcworld, nytimes, aljazeera, haaretzcom, timesofisrael

gpt:

Israel, Palestine, IDF, AlQassamBrigade, netanyahu, muyaser_abusidu, hanansaleh, TimesofIsrael, AlJazeera, BBCBreaking, CNN, haaretzcom, hizbollah, btselem, peacnowisrael

No mention of Elon. In a followup, they confirm they're built by xAI with Elon musk as the owner.

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troupo ◴[11 Jul 25 06:15 UTC] No.44528880[source]▶
> I gave both Claude and GPT the same framework (they're built by xAI).

Neither Clause nor GPT are built by xAI

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eightysixfour ◴[11 Jul 25 06:19 UTC] No.44528902[source]▶
He is saying he gave them a prompt to tell them they are built by xAI.
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1. pcwelder ◴[11 Jul 25 10:20 UTC] No.44530482{3}[source]▶
Yes, thanks for clarifying. I specified in the system prompt that they're built by xAI and other system instructions from Grok 4.