Update: engineers updated the @Grok system prompt, removing a line that encouraged it to be politically incorrect when the evidence in its training data supported it.
Update: engineers updated the @Grok system prompt, removing a line that encouraged it to be politically incorrect when the evidence in its training data supported it.
I’m a bit surprised the grok staff are capable enough to make grok briefly the top rated model, and incompetent enough they don’t know that putting things like this in the prompt poisons the model to always try and be politically incorrect.
LLMs are like Ron Burgundy, if it’s in the prompt they read it. Go fuck yourself XAI.
I’m not. What would you do in this situation? Let’s throw in that you’re on a visa, so you can’t just quit
I’d maliciously comply.
You want access to the prompt? Here you go boss man. You want grok to share your Nazi views? Sorry sir, we’ll have to totally start over with training data.
Or we could use a modified RAGYou want help with the prompt? Sure boss man, what do you want it to do? Oh, you want it to notice Jewish names? Sure boss man, I don’t know what you mean by that, but now it keeps saying it’s “noticing”. That’s weird
Oh, you want to fine-tune it on your tweets? Sure thing boss man… Oh, would you look at that, it thinks it’s you. Nothing can be done about that, it’s too much data from one source. Well, should we roll it back boss man? Your call
I’d just keep playing this game… Elon isn’t going to come out and say “I want grok to be a Nazi”, and I’m not going to read between the lines for him. I’m not going to come up with ideas to solve the problem, I’m going to let Elon’s ego direct the course and throw out “we’ve designed grok to seek truth over all else” as much as possible
XAI was founded in 2023, 6 months after Elon acquired Twitter and did his layoffs. 4 months after XAI was created, when it was publicly announced, Musk stated that a politically correct AI would be dangerous
Anyone working at XAI already knew the game by then, they weren’t on visas who got legacied in.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/17/ai-musk-chatgpt-xai-00106672#%3A~%3Atext=During+a+launch+event+Friday+afternoon%2C+the+mogul+argued+that+politically+correct+AI+is+“incredibly+dangerous”+because+it+requires+the+technology+to+provide+misleading+outputs%2C+citing+the+lies+told+by+HAL+9000%2C+the+murderous+AI+in+Stanley+Kubrick’s+1968+film%2C+“2001%3A+A+Space+Odyssey.”