alt Hacker NewsAgreed but there were similar controversies with how OpenAI was generating images. The only pass is these are the early days of chatbots and this stuff is so non-deterministic and experimental.
For context, this was the change Grok's team made, that was later reverted:
> - The response should not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated.
https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/commit/c5de4a14feb50...
For sure. The difference is that they've made a number of similar suspect changes to Grok on X. Like that weird couple of hours where it would only talk about white genocide in South Africa no matter how you prompted it.
Everyone makes mistakes, especially with frontier models. The stuff with Grok shows that the person running the show has a pretty transparent agenda that the company isn't willing to push back on a bit for safety.