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Elon Musk’s AI company says Grok chatbot focus on South Africa’s racial politics was ‘unauthorized’
Elon Musk’s AI company says an “unauthorized modification” led Grok to post unsolicited claims on social media.
Whodunit? 'Unauthorized' change to Grok made it blather on about 'White genocide'
But the Grok case appears to be a case of someone deliberately modifying its system prompt to make it inject Elon-aligned ...
xAI posts Grok’s behind-the-scenes prompts
xAI has published the system prompts for its AI chatbot Grok after an “unauthorized” change led to a slew of unprompted ...
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Grok AI Went Off the Rails After Someone Tampered With Its Code, xAI Says
Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is blaming its multibillion-dollar chatbot's inexplicable meltdown into rants about "white genocide" on an "unauthorized modification" to Grok's code. On Wednesday, ...
Why was Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok preoccupied with South Africa’s racial politics?
Much like its creator, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was preoccupied with South African racial politics on ...
A former OpenAI safety researcher makes sense of ChatGPT’s sycophancy and Grok’s South Africa obsession
Steven Adler breaks down recent erratic behavior from leading chatbots. It has been an odd few weeks for generative AI ...
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Elon Musk’s AI Bot Doesn't Believe In Timothée Chalamet Because the Media Is Evil
Asking Elon Musk's Grok AI about the career of actor Timothée Chalamet results in a rant about biases in "mainstream sources." ...
Sam Altman mocks Grok for inserting mentions of 'white genocide in South Africa' in unrelated X posts
Sam Altman made fun of Grok's controversial 'white genocide' mentions on X, perhaps escalating his feud with Elon Musk.