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Censoring the statue of David is not old news! Unless you go back to the 19th century: "The practice of covering Michelangelo's "David" with a fig leaf, part
by exodust 1y ago
Censoring the statue of David is not old news! Unless you go back to the 19th century:
"The practice of covering Michelangelo's "David" with a fig leaf, particularly a detachable one, was common during the Victorian era, specifically in the mid-19th century, due to Queen Victoria's discomfort with the statue's nudity."
So we have a newly tightened trajectory of censorship. Grok was promoted as an AI that strives to "maximize truth and objectivity". We've gone from that to effectively placing fig leaves over statues.
Meanwhile the linked article fails to clarify the outcome, which apparently was a "rogue prompt change" by a new employee, Musk wasn't involved. The prompt was reversed and "the system was functioning as intended." It's completely understandable there might be a volume of anti-[personX] material on the internet, put there as propaganda, that might serve as weighted reasoning for an LLM. This is nothing new, unless you're aiming for cheap shots.