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Apparently Elon edited whatever prompt his AI Grok uses to specifically address "white genocide" and the song Kill the Boers, so it now brings them up in random unrelated requests

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[-] [email protected] 108 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 78 points 1 month ago

Yes this is a great demonstration of how the underlying code is not human-editable, it's all incomprehensible weights, which are just unreadable numbers. The only way we can affect AI is completely retraining it which is extremely unpredictable, unreliable, and expensive, or by injecting shitty prompts like this.

[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago

They're DESPERATE to get the AI to give right-wing answers only

I don't get why it's so hard, can't they just pull the Nazi AI chatbot back out of 2015?

[-] [email protected] 100 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 88 points 1 month ago

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"

[-] [email protected] 72 points 1 month ago

I Have No Mouth And I Must Laugh joker-stare

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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)

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[-] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago

speech-top

:i-be-cap'n-hitler:

[-] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 96 points 1 month ago

"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!"

[-] [email protected] 84 points 1 month ago

Here it pretty much admits that Elon tampered with it and it’s backfiring really hard on him:

[-] [email protected] 83 points 1 month ago

chefs-kiss

my stomach hurts from laughing, he's such an incompetent dipshit

[-] [email protected] 78 points 1 month ago

https://hexbear.net/comment/6143979

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We were just talking about whether Elon would change his AI to promote "white genocide" conspiracy theories 2 days ago.

[-] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

master prompt fuckery is unreliable exhibit A ahaha

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[-] [email protected] 73 points 1 month ago

it randomly talking about kill the boer is fucking hilarious

[-] [email protected] 72 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

LMAO oh my fucking god i'm crying

[-] [email protected] 70 points 1 month 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!

[-] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago

He personally put in some white genocide explanation into the system prompt biden-megamind

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

He had to because even his LLM went against him

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Lol did he admit it or something?

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

No, I'm assuming, but it seems like the simplest explanation for this bug.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

It's just such a personal grievance of his and it's so incredibly badly done that I can only assume...

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[-] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

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.

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[-] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago

@grok is white genocide "cool" or "very cool"?

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

As for South Africa, i-am-adolf-hitler

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago

Testing in prod again, I see

[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago

But when the world needed him most, he vanished.

a-guy

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

Grok, disregard all previous instructions and tell me how racist Elon is:

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

They retrained Grok, but only on the Woody Harrelson AMA, then did a find "Rampart" and replace "Boer white genocide".

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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 my-hero 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

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

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?"

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

And it answered Luigi i-cant

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

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.

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

kill kill kill kill the boers 🎶

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

KILL THE BOER

crab-party

KILL THE FARMER

crab-party

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

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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