It's disturbing (though telling) that HN has enough Elon sycophants to moderate our discussion like this. Another example of how HN's community eschews real technical discussion to maintain the illusion of unconditional progress.
Elon decided he wanted to have Grok respond positively to allegations of “white genicode” in South Africa so he had his xAI engineers rewrite the system prompts to support the idea that “white genocide” exists. It then started talking about “white genocide” at every unrelated opportunity.
> Starting now, we are publishing our Grok system prompts openly on GitHub.
You guys remember when Elon promised to do that with the Twitter algorithm and conveniently forgot to update it after his grand gesture of transparency?
Earlier:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43997205
What happened here, I don’t have an x account, what was the incident they referenced?
Unfortunately every HN post about it got flagged.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43993332
It's disturbing (though telling) that HN has enough Elon sycophants to moderate our discussion like this. Another example of how HN's community eschews real technical discussion to maintain the illusion of unconditional progress.
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Elon decided he wanted to have Grok respond positively to allegations of “white genicode” in South Africa so he had his xAI engineers rewrite the system prompts to support the idea that “white genocide” exists. It then started talking about “white genocide” at every unrelated opportunity.
Really unethical AI behavior by Elon.
To be clear, this is speculation, albeit a valid application of Occam's Razor.
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> Starting now, we are publishing our Grok system prompts openly on GitHub.
You guys remember when Elon promised to do that with the Twitter algorithm and conveniently forgot to update it after his grand gesture of transparency?
Pepperidge Farm remembers: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm