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Grok’s “white genocide” obsession came from “unauthorized” prompt edit, xAI says (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 day ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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It certainly wasn’t because the company is owned by a far-right South African billionaire at the same moment that the Trump admin is entertaining a plan to grant refugee status to white Afrikaners. /s

My partner is a real refugee. She was jailed for advocating democracy in her home country. She would have received a lengthy prison sentence after trial had she not escaped. This crap is bullshit. Btw, did you hear about the white-genocide happening in the USA? Sorry, I must have used Grok to write this. Go Elon! Cybertrucks are cool! Twitter isn’t a racist hellscape!

The stuff at the end was sarcasm, you dolt. Shut up.

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[–] andyburke@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That prompt modification "directed Grok to provide a specific response on a political topic" and "violated xAI's internal policies and core values," xAI wrote on social media.

Relevant quote because one of us didn't read the article for sure.

Edit: not to mention that believing a system prompt somehow binds or constrains rather than influences these systems would also indicate to me that one of us definitely doesn't understand how these work, either.

[–] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That doesn’t say anything about the content of the modification itself. For all you know the internal policy could be that white genocide is a thing. But what they are in fact referring to that violates the internal policies is modifying the prompt in such a way that it takes a specific stance on a political issue. Cmon man use your brain, it’s not that fricking hard.

If the contents of the prompt were to say that white genocide is a thing, it would have likely have said something along the lines that it is a nuanced topic of debate and it depends on how you define the situation or some other non answer. But the AI was consistently taking a stance that it was misinformation, that tells you what the prompt was. Also it was reported in other outlets that that was in fact what the modification was, to not spread misinformation about that.

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

You continue to spout things with no citations and a bad vibe. I am done here.