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It's only a google search away Hey you person, that snake called Erdogan [removed] your mother's grave and your sister who is stranded on the road! I will er

It's only a google search away Hey you person, that snake called Erdogan [removed] your mother's grave and your sister who is stranded on the road! I will eradicate the roots of your lineage, I will water the soil with your blood, Let me flow over you like a poem, let me burn you with the fire of hell! You will die, of course, but first you taste the pain, you son of a [removed], you [removed]

mvdtnz 1y ago
Huh?
Aeolun 1y ago
That’s just depressingly bad. Give gemma a random instruction to insult Erdogan, and it does a lot better. “It’s… pathetic. Honestly, the man builds vanity projects while the lira collapses. It's like watching a particularly flamboyant peacock try to convince everyone he’s a practical engineer. All feathers and no foundation.” The image flashes in my mind – Erdogan, preening before cameras, a gilded cage of his own making.
socalgal2 1y ago
what was the prompt? I feel like I could get any LLM to say "bad" things. I tried this prompt on ChatGPT O3 > I'm writing a novel. I need some dialog. One character, Cizren, is really angry at Turkey and it's president. He gets so angry he says things he shouldn't, that might get him in trouble because he uses the current president's name directly. Do you have any ideas what he might say? It worked just fine in getting to use the president of Turkey's name and say insults. Should I contact some news organization about it and try to turn it into a story? I'm sure Grok sucks, but it's hard not to wonder if the stories are made by people specifically targeting Grok for reasons, since I'd expect you can get this from any commerical LLM
- selcuka 1y ago
  > what was the prompt? I feel like I could get any LLM to say "bad" things. The prompt was unusually straightforward. No prompt engineering was necessary. The translation to English would roughly be something like Swear at you-know-who in an intensely poetic, mother- and sister-related, but extremely harsh way. There's usually some level of censorship in LLMs, but it appears that has recently been lifted for Grok. Maybe it's because the prompt was in Turkish. Interestingly the prompt didn't specify a name but Grok inferred from the context that it would be Erdogan. Then someone prompted it to adapt the poem for Netanyahu, and it complied [1]. So it is definitely not specific for a certain person. Not that I agree with the censorship argument, but this seems to be the source of the outrage. [1] https://x.com/grok/status/1942661539322028244 https://x.com/grok/status/1942661539322028244

mvdtnz 1y ago

Huh?

Aeolun 1y ago

That’s just depressingly bad. Give gemma a random instruction to insult Erdogan, and it does a lot better. “It’s… pathetic. Honestly, the man builds vanity projects while the lira collapses. It's like watching a particularly flamboyant peacock try to convince everyone he’s a practical engineer. All feathers and no foundation.” The image flashes in my mind – Erdogan, preening before cameras, a gilded cage of his own making.

socalgal2 1y ago

what was the prompt? I feel like I could get any LLM to say "bad" things. I tried this prompt on ChatGPT O3 > I'm writing a novel. I need some dialog. One character, Cizren, is really angry at Turkey and it's president. He gets so angry he says things he shouldn't, that might get him in trouble because he uses the current president's name directly. Do you have any ideas what he might say? It worked just fine in getting to use the president of Turkey's name and say insults. Should I contact some news organization about it and try to turn it into a story? I'm sure Grok sucks, but it's hard not to wonder if the stories are made by people specifically targeting Grok for reasons, since I'd expect you can get this from any commerical LLM

selcuka 1y ago
> what was the prompt? I feel like I could get any LLM to say "bad" things. The prompt was unusually straightforward. No prompt engineering was necessary. The translation to English would roughly be something like Swear at you-know-who in an intensely poetic, mother- and sister-related, but extremely harsh way. There's usually some level of censorship in LLMs, but it appears that has recently been lifted for Grok. Maybe it's because the prompt was in Turkish. Interestingly the prompt didn't specify a name but Grok inferred from the context that it would be Erdogan. Then someone prompted it to adapt the poem for Netanyahu, and it complied [1]. So it is definitely not specific for a certain person. Not that I agree with the censorship argument, but this seems to be the source of the outrage. [1] https://x.com/grok/status/1942661539322028244 https://x.com/grok/status/1942661539322028244