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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: 0.66s | 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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dupsik ◴[11 Jul 25 05:37 UTC] No.44528706[source]▶
That quote was not from a conversation with Tucker Carlson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nBx-37c3c8
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marcusb ◴[11 Jul 25 10:22 UTC] No.44530494[source]▶
My mistake, thank you.
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acquiesce[dead post] ◴[11 Jul 25 15:25 UTC] No.44533237[source]▶
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1. marcusb ◴[11 Jul 25 15:36 UTC] No.44533380[source]▶
Sorry. Site rules prevent me from responding to your comment in the manner in which it deserves.

Have a nice day.

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2. lcnPylGDnU4H9OF ◴[11 Jul 25 16:40 UTC] No.44534233[source]▶
Based on the timing of the comments they would not have been able to edit their comment at the time yours was posted, nor even at the time they posted the one you replied to (edit: nor even at the time they were corrected). There is a 2-hour window for editing comments.

It's also really obnoxious to demand that strangers do things to fit your sensibilities. I get the feeling they didn't want to say anything about it because they would have used less friendly words than "obnoxious", which is already not particularly friendly.