Comment by bcoates
3 days ago
Made worse by Grok on Twitter having a big dumb UI flaw: it replies to a user on the public timeline as just "grok" so trolls can prompt it to say wild stuff, then tag @grok with an innocuous looking question, then point it it and claim it's giving those responses unprovoked.
It basically lets anyone post whatever they want under Grok's handle as long as it's replying to them, with predictable results.
The giveaway is that all the screenshots floating around show grok giving replies to single-purpose troll accounts
@grok is killing credibility. Nearly every post has @grok "is this true" and it pollutes /distracts every conversation . Right or wrong (commonly) it's setting the pivot point for the convo.
> it replies to a user on the public timeline as just "grok"
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by that. What else would it reply as?
The anthropomorphism implies that all messages from @grok are coming from a text generator with a single consistent "personality" chosen by Twitter or xai or whatever, where in reality the public response is generated primarily by the stored conversation history/settings/commands of the particular user who prompted them, who is closer to the actual author.