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Comment by rockemsockem

3 days ago

I will fondly remind folks that Grok isn't even the first LLM to become a Nazi on Twitter.

Remember Tay Tweets?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)

Honestly I really don't think a bad release of an LLM that was rolled back is really the condemnation you think it is.

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blargey  3 days ago

I don’t think the third+ flavor of “bad release” this year, of the sort nobody else in this crowded space suffers from, is as innocuous as you think it is.

And Tay was a non-LLM user account released a full 6 years before ChatGPT; you might as well bring up random users’ markov chains.

amrocha  3 days ago

There’s a difference between a 3rd party twitter bot and grok. And it’s not a “bad release”, it’s been like this ever since it launched.

Funny how ChatGPT is vanilla and grok somehow has a new racist thing to say every other week.

  • MetaWhirledPeas  3 days ago

    > Funny how ChatGPT is vanilla and grok somehow has a new racist thing to say every other week

    To be fair, 'exposing' ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini as racist will get you a lot fewer clicks.

    Musk claims Grok to be less filtered in general than other LLMs. This is what less filtered looks like. LLMs are not human; if you get one to say racist things it's probably because you were trying to make it say racist things. If you want this so-called problem solved by putting bowling bumpers on the bot, by all means go use ChatGPT.

    • arp242  3 days ago

      > if you get one to say racist things it's probably because you were trying to make it say racist things.

      When it started ranting about the Jews and "Mecha Hitler" it was unprompted on unrelated matters. When it started ranting about "white genocide" in SA a while ago it was also unprompted on unrelated matters.

      So no.

    • mrguyorama  3 days ago

      >This is what less filtered looks like

      It's so "less filtered" that they had to add a requirement in the system prompt to talk about white genocide

      This idea that "less filtered" LLMs will be "naturally" very racist is something that a lot of racists really really want to be true because they want to believe their racist views are backed by data.

      They are not.

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    • amrocha  3 days ago

      Nobody’s trying to get grok to talk about MechaHitler. At that point you just know Musk said that out loud in a meeting and someone had to add it to groks base prompt.