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by b0sk 302 days ago
He's the guy that blamed an ex-OpenAI employee after one of many Grok's fails https://fortune.com/2025/02/24/xai-chief-engineer-blames-for...
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elcritch 302 days ago
xAIs prompts are open?! Wow that's pretty impressive.
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pavlov 302 days ago
In the same sense that DOGE's receipts are open.

They publish something that looks good, and the reality is something else.

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DaSHacka 301 days ago
So they don't actually publish the correct prompts, and are just lying? Do you have a source for that?
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pavlov 301 days ago
A "rogue employee" [1] at xAI recently tweaked the prompts to make Grok talk about "white genocide" in South Africa in response to completely unrelated queries:

https://apnews.com/article/grok-ai-south-africa-64ce5f240061...

These modifications didn't seem to get reflected in the published xAI prompts.

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[1] Musk himself, obviously

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