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It's not word salad, Grok was literally posting unironic praise for Hitler two days ago.

It was also stating that the life of a single Jew is worth more than that of two million non-Jews.

LLMs can occasionally say crazy stuff, that is not surprising, and I think we should do better than leaning into the outrage machine.

The opposite is how we end up with ridiculous guardrails, like having ChatGPT say that it would rather allow all of humanity to perish than to say the N word, a statement which is orders of magnitude worse, only more publicly palatable.

LLMs can be baited, small changes to system prompts can cause this quite unexpectedly just like many big companies found out by accident.

we fix it and move on.

First off, if you change something as an engineer you are responsible for testing it before deploying it to production. Besides they intentionally changed the system prompt to make it more politically incorrect. (It’s because they hold a unnuanced ideology that conflates political incorrectness with objectivity - thus it’s logical that Grok is going to slide into racism.) In any case their stupidity on multiple fronts doesn’t deserve a free pass.

It was but so were other models before. OP said the twitter to grok feature is a good use case and I agree. Its great for fact checking. For example it will debunk conspiracy theories and misinformation tweets in general. I even asked it about its own hitler meltdown and it rejected its own words (so I must have asked it after they fixed it).

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