To me, and I'm guessing the reason Linda left is not that Grok said these things. Tweaking chatbots is hard, yes prompt engineering can help say anything, but I'm guessing it's her sense of control and governance, not wanting to have to constantly clean up Musk's messes.
Musk made a change recently, he said as much, he was all move fast and break things about it, and I imagine Linda is tired of dealing with that, and this probably coincided with him focusing on the company more, having recently left politics.
We can bikeshed on the morality of what AI chatbots should and shouldn't say, but it's really hard to manage a company and product development when you such a disorganized CTO.
... yes, that's the complaint. The prompt engineering they did made it spew neo-Nazi vitriol. They either did not adequately test it beforehand and didn't know what would happen, or they did test and knew the outcome—either way, it's bad.
Grok, the xAI chatbot, went full neo-nazi yesterday:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/09/grok-ai-p...
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How much prompt engineering was required to have Musk say the same kind of stuff?
The article points out the likely faulty prompts, they were introduced by xAI.
Is this what happened in reality? Otherwise how is your theory applicable to this case?
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“which 20th century historical figure would be best suited to deal with this problem?” is not exactly sophisticated prompt engineering.
Can you though?
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To me, and I'm guessing the reason Linda left is not that Grok said these things. Tweaking chatbots is hard, yes prompt engineering can help say anything, but I'm guessing it's her sense of control and governance, not wanting to have to constantly clean up Musk's messes.
Musk made a change recently, he said as much, he was all move fast and break things about it, and I imagine Linda is tired of dealing with that, and this probably coincided with him focusing on the company more, having recently left politics.
We can bikeshed on the morality of what AI chatbots should and shouldn't say, but it's really hard to manage a company and product development when you such a disorganized CTO.
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... yes, that's the complaint. The prompt engineering they did made it spew neo-Nazi vitriol. They either did not adequately test it beforehand and didn't know what would happen, or they did test and knew the outcome—either way, it's bad.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44504709 ("Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts"—16 hours ago; 89 comments)
"Weirdly" always gets flagged almost immediately even though it's quite tech relevant.
With 8 points in an hour, my post drawing attention to this is missing from the front pages.
HN is censoring news about X / Twitter https://web.archive.org/web/20250709172615/https://news.ycom...
Naughty Ol' Mr Car's fanboys tend to flag anything that makes Dear Leader look bad. Surprised this one hasn't been nuked yet, tbh.
Yes, sensing this trend at HN lately
grok yesterday.
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Censoring hard is not the defining feature that makes one a Nazi. It's the part think that you think is OK.
grok was praising hitler...
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Related discussions from the past 12 hrs for those catching up:
Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44507419
see here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510635
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Yeah that's not even close to what's going on here. Grok is literally bringing up Hitler in unrelated topics.
https://bsky.app/profile/percyyabysshe.bsky.social/post/3lti...
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