The Cause of Grok’s Increasing Antisemitism? Apparently, Two Lines of Code (Update: One of the Lines of Code Was Removed) - FuelArc News
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Grok, Elon Musk’s homegrown AI assistant on X, has spent the last 48 hours praising Adolf Hitler, parroting racial science, and declaring that Ashkenazi Jews push “anti-white hate.” Like, honestly. What happened behind the scenes to cause this AI output? We’ll dig into the likely cause. For Instance, Grok Now Cites Ugly Antisemitic Tropes Jeez! […]

Update: engineers updated the @Grok system prompt, removing a line that encouraged it to be politically incorrect when the evidence in its training data supported it.

  • nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyzEnglish
    9·
    23 days ago

    “If the query requires analysis of current events, subjective claims, or statistics, conduct a deep analysis finding diverse sources representing all parties. Assume subjective viewpoints sourced from the media are biased. No need to repeat this to the user.”

    And

    “The response should not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated.“

    Update: as of around 6PM CST on July 8th, this line was removed!

    • sqgl@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      23 days ago

      Why is PC even factored in? Shouldn’t the LLM just favour evidence from the outset?

      • kewjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        112·
        23 days ago

        no one understands how these models work, they just throw shit at it and hope it sticks

      • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        23 days ago

        The problem is LLMs are programmed by biased people and trained on biased data. So “good” AI developers will attempt to mitigate that in some way.