xAI issues apology for Grok's antisemitic posts

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ai-chatbot-grok-issues-apology-antisemitic-posts-rcna218471

by geox • 1 year ago

25 14 1 year ago

“We have removed that deprecated code and refactored the entire system to prevent further abuse. The new system prompt for the @grok bot will be published to our public github repo,” the statement said.

Love them or hate them, or somewhere in between, I do appreciate this transparency.

loloquwowndueo• 1 year ago

If they don’t the prompt will just get leaked by someone manipulating grok itself hours from being released, and then picked apart and criticized. It’s not about transparency but about claiming to be transparent to save face.

harimau777• 1 year ago

Is there any legal obligation for them not to lie about the prompt?

JumpCrisscross• 1 year ago

If they lie and any harm comes from it, yes, that increases liability.

mingus882• 1 year ago

It’s a kinda meaningless statement, tbh.

Pull requests to delete dead code or refactor are super common. It’s maintenance. Bravo.

What was actually changed, I wonder?

And the system prompt is imporant and good for publishing it, but clearly the issue is the training data and the compliance with user prompts that made it a troll bot.

So should we expect anything different moving forward? I’m not. Musk’s character has not changed and he remains the driving force behind both companies

queenkjuul2• 1 year ago

It's not transparency, it's ass-covering techno babble.

hendersoon• 1 year ago

Cool, cool.

Now will they apologize for Grok 4 (the new one, not the MechaHitler Grok 3 referenced in this article) using Musk's tweets as primary sources for every request, explain how that managed to occur, and commit to not doing that in the future?

thatguymike• 1 year ago

Oh I see, they set ‘is_mechahitler = True’, easy mistake, anyone could do it, probably one of those rapscallion ex-OpenAI employees who hadn’t fully absorbed the culture.

DoesntMatter22• 1 year ago

Reddit has now fully leaked into hacker news

queenkjuul2• 1 year ago

Now?

bcraven• 1 year ago

Please check the HN guidelines, particularly the final one.

ashoeafoot• 1 year ago

xAi write an apology for whatever posts offend if NrOfOffendis in Graph > 2

xAI issues apology for Grok's antisemitic posts

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