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At least two times they had unauthorized changes to their prompts to inject far right content that showed up on random content. imagine you're using it for a
by adrr 1y ago
At least two times they had unauthorized changes to their prompts to inject far right content that showed up on random content. imagine you're using it for a chat bot and it starts spouting off white nationalist content like "great replacement" theory.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/14/elon-musk-grok-white-genocide https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/14/elon-musk...
- rurp 1y agoTrue, although "unauthorized" might deserve scare quotes given the source and how pertinent those changes were to the bosses immediate interest.
- mhh__ 1y ago[flagged]
- jeffbee 1y agoDo you recall anything about the history of England? For example did the Indians vote to become subjects of the Queen?
- mhh__ 1y agoA radical metaphor, you make it sound deliberate
- karn97 1y ago[flagged]
- Planktonne 1y ago> from London which is now what 35% English How are you defining "English" here?
- duskwuff 1y agoWhat was the other time? The incident linked at the bottom of that article ("into trouble last year") wasn't an "unauthorized change", as far as I'm aware; it was a general lack of guardrails on image generation.
- inferiorhuman 1y agoWhite genocide and holocaust denial.
- duskwuff 1y agoThat was the one I was aware of. Was there another incident separate from that?
- inferiorhuman 1y agoWhile I'm sure the same rogue "employee" was responsible for both, they are separate incidents. Musk's AI service was pushing "white genocide" lies as answers to unrelated prompts. It was only spouting holocaust denial lies when asked directly.
- stuaxo 1y ago"Unauthorised" and yet seem to line up with what Elon himself likes on X comments.