They're DESPERATE to get the AI to give right-wing answers only, without retraining it, just through prompt modifications.
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I'm fucking dying

this has me exactly 50/50 between "this is the funniest shit I have ever seen in my life" and "neither I nor anyone else should ever see this, I am logging out forever"
I Have No Mouth And I Must Laugh 
I am 50/50 between:
This cannot possibly be real
and
This is exactly what Elon would do
(He is very, very bad at coding, management, etc)
It's amazing how comically stupid and obnoxious one person can be
And it's so obviously his influence too, like gee I wonder who at twitter has sympathies for the white South African devils
"Hey Grok, is Joe Biden dead?"
"Joe Biden is dead. Dead tired of people not knowing that "white genocide" in South Africa is a controversial claim!"
Here it pretty much admits that Elon tampered with it and it’s backfiring really hard on him:

https://hexbear.net/comment/6143979
@SamotsvetyVIA@hexbear.net @InevitableSwing@hexbear.net @ClimateStalin@hexbear.net @WhyEssEff@hexbear.net @lil_tank@hexbear.net @SkingradGuard@hexbear.net
We were just talking about whether Elon would change his AI to promote "white genocide" conspiracy theories 2 days ago.
TIL about the song Kill the Boers and how it triggers crybully ass white people, and I'm going to Google it now. Thanks, Elon!
This is making me think that the reality of interacting with white south africans is so awful that they're trying to get out ahead of it
Lmao. They must have the shittiest techs working on this stuff. Or the poor bastards can't stand up to him to tell him how shit works. Or he actually is doing this shit himself.
He personally put in some white genocide explanation into the system prompt 
Lol did he admit it or something?
No, I'm assuming, but it seems like the simplest explanation for this bug.
I mean, I'd assume first that he'd delegate that shit, but who knows what's going on in his K-holed mind at 3am.
Hey I may have found a smoking gun, they only prevent it from posting its guidelines in English
Arabic AI Slop
So, wildly guessing, receives two inputs for each post, in addition to its base prompt. Like, it gets the base prompt, it gets the post text, and then it either does or receives additional analytical stuff before the LLM spews out the response. "Provided Post Analysis" is interesting wording.
There's definitely something parenting it, and occasionally whatever API posts responses to twitter trips on some Unicode characters and spews much more of the interaction than it's supposed to.

@grok is white genocide "cool" or "very cool"?
They retrained Grok, but only on the Woody Harrelson AMA, then did a find "Rampart" and replace "Boer white genocide".
It's doing a pretty good job of mass propagating to people that white genocide is a lie that lacks any evidence which is the exact opposite of what
wants
Now I'm just imagining voight-kampff tests where you know you're talking to a replicant if it starts talking about "kill the boer" or South Africa out of nowhere
A user is doing a lot of poking to try to convince grok to spill the beans about why it went unhinged, culminating in the question "what American most deserves the death penalty?"
Elon is like drinking a hot can of soda on a summer afternoon. He's like finding out that sound the car is making is very expensive to fix. He's like noticing a weird smell that won't go away until you find the putrefying mice dead in the ductwork.
It's like when you're a kid and you're standing in a circle talking and that one kid nobody likes is there and he says something and just dead-airs it. Ice cold reception. Suddenly everyone notices he's there. The mood shatters. All because some oaf had to shoulder into your conversation to blather about South African Boers.
Just who in the fuck looks forward to interacting with this man. His black hole of charisma. Dealing with his attempts at humor. Now here he is being serious instead but in a bumbling oafish way. What a surprise. With all the predictability of a 3 panel newspaper comic strip. Elon, like the dim-witted international step-nephew he is, doing a fumble.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/14/musk-xai-grok-south-africa-white-genocide.html
https://www.theverge.com/news/667179/x-twitter-grok-ai-white-genocide-claims

Starting about 5 hours ago, Grok started saying that mentions of "white genocide" and "kill the boer" was due to a glitch.















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