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And what about Elmo’s white genocide obsession?
this post was submitted on 16 May 2025
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Did you read what Grok was saying? Grok was saying that white genocide is questionable at best, and unfounded.
It was just saying when prompted about unrelated stuff which is what made it bizarre. It never said it was a real thing, nor endorsing the idea that it is something real.
Why was it mentioning it at all in conversations not about it?
And why does the fact that it did that not seem to bother you?
I guess you didn’t read the article, or don’t understand how LLMs work so I’ll explain.
An employee changed the AI’s system prompt, telling it to avoid spreading white genocide misinformation in South Africa. The system prompt is a context that tells the AI how to work with the prompts it is given and it forces it “to think” about whatever is on there. So by making that change in the system prompt every time someone prompted Grok about anything, it would think about not spreading misinformation about white genocide in South Africa, so it inserted that into pretty much everything.
So it doesn’t bother me because it’s an LLM acting as it is supposed to when someone messes with the settings. Grok probably did not need these instructions in the first place, as it’s consistently been embarrassing Elon every time the man posts one of his shitbrained takes, and while I haven’t used that AI, I don’t think, or have yet to see proof that Elon is directing it’s training to be positive conservative ideologies or harebrained conspiracy theories. It could be for all I know, but from what I’ve seen Grok sticks to facts as they are.
A lot of people are reading the misleadingly titled articles about this thinking that Elon made the AI spread the notion that there’s such a thing as a white genocide in South Africa when that was not at all what happened. You need to read the actual article or else you’re falling for the same shit the MAGAtards do.
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That's the problem with modern AI and future technologies we are creating
We, as a human civilization, are not creating future technology for the betterment of mankind ... we are arrogantly and ignorantly manipulating all future technology for our own personal gain and preferences.
i wish i knew who the rogue employee was. incredible
I heard their initials are E.M.
that's probably not true. I imagine it was someone trying to harm the guy. a hilarious prank
Haha, keep fucking with it, this is entertaining
Lesson learned: AI are not reliable.