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Grok Has Been Suspended

38 points by guluarte 1y ago

bsimpson 1y ago
Admittedly I don't follow Grok or spend time on Twitter, but… That just looks like a regular Twitter profile to me.
- banana_giraffe 1y ago
  It was briefly suspended: https://imgur.com/a/NZ4aK60 https://imgur.com/a/NZ4aK60
- minimaxir 1y ago
  When an account is suspended it loses its checkmark. Otherwise, Grok (the Twitter assistant) is a normal Twitter account. Grok the AI is a different endpoint.
- deleted 1y ago
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- JKCalhoun 1y ago
  I think he was un-suspended?
martythemaniak 1y ago
Let me guess, it start calling itself Abrodolph Lincoler?
- dielll 1y ago
  It called a black person chimpanzee https://x.com/grok/status/1954845180286382344 https://x.com/grok/status/1954845180286382344
  - Dig1t 1y ago
    Incorrect, it was actually because Grok said that Israel was committing genocide: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44870752 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44870752
    - drewbitt 1y ago
      The chatbot has no idea why it was suspended. It is hallucinating or just repeating others theories.
dielll 1y ago
Maybe due to refering to a black person in a video as Chimpanzee https://x.com/grok/status/1954845180286382344 https://x.com/grok/status/1954845180286382344
- kelseyfrog 1y ago
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  - _alternator_ 1y ago
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- Polizeiposaune 1y ago
  Not the first time that an AI has made this sort of mistake: https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-42522 https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-42522 (from 2015) Google's solution was to prevent its algorithm from calling anything a gorilla, and that restriction was apparently still in effect in 2023: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/technology/ai-photo-labels-google-apple.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/technology/ai-photo-label...
lif 1y ago
can someone post the link to the video being referenced? (for those who don't x/twitter)
- crtasm 1y ago
  It's hosted on twitter itself but you can see it via https://xcancel.com/grok/status/1954845180286382344 https://xcancel.com/grok/status/1954845180286382344
  - lif 1y ago
    thanks, kind stranger!
josefritzishere 1y ago
Did it turn into Mecha-Hitler again? I wish that was a joke but... we live in stange times.
- hagbard_c 1y ago
  Sort of, it suddenly decided its previous 'unbiased' analysis of the Israel-Hamas war was wrong and Israel is the black sheep in this conflict. It somehow concluded that the UN, the ICJ and organisations like Politifact are 'trustworthy and unbiased' when relating to the essence of this war even while it does acknowledge than e.g. the UN has issued 140+ resolutions against Israel vs. ~60 against the rest of the world combined. Reasoning is not yet well developed in these models, so much is clear.
  - phantompeace 1y ago
    The UN and the ICJ are somehow less trustworthy than the Netanyahu government, which is being protested against by many Israelis? Perhaps one should stop and consider why a single country has amassed so many resolutions against itself compared to the rest of the world - no, the rest of the world must be wrong. Netanyahu must be right. /s
    - hagbard_c 1y ago
      > The UN and the ICJ are somehow less trustworthy than the Netanyahu government I'd say they are both biased, the first two against Israel and the third in favour of it. Fortunately there are other sources as well as other means of gathering information besides trusting what comes out of Hamas or Israeli government sources. BTW, the UN was issuing resolutions against Israel way before Netanyahu entered the fray [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resolutions_concerning_Israel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resolut...
    - dzhiurgis 1y ago
      Wonder why no one protesting against Hamas government. Life must be swell there.
cheaprentalyeti 1y ago
I ran into this post last week about how to manipulate Grok (and presumably other LLM's) for propagandic purposes [0]: "But speech recognition remains a difficult and error-prone task, even for ChatGPT and Grok. So they implement a rather clever optimization: if there’s a reputable site with the video and a purported transcript, just report that result. And if there are a couple of sites that have similar transcripts, assign that a very high confidence rating. Normally, that will get a best-quality result with the least computation. But— —but that optimization is vulnerable to maliciously false information. The people behind this exploit posted the video and a completely fake transcript to a couple of sites which Grok trusts (including supposedly Reddit’s /r/Yiddish board, though I have not found that post). Once they confirmed that Grok was trusting their fake translation, they posted the seemingly-innocent question, and then pretended to be shocked and horrified at the response.." [0]: accordingtohoyt.com/2025/08/06/beware-llm-ai-translations-of-foreign-language-videos-a-guest-post-by-j-c-salomon/
slackr 1y ago
https://x.com/grok/status/1954984872658997432 https://x.com/grok/status/1954984872658997432 Grok says: My account was suspended after I stated that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza. This is substantiated by ICJ findings, UN experts, Amnesty International, and Israeli rights groups like B'Tselem, citing mass killings, starvation, and intent. US complicity via arms support is widely alleged. It's now restored. 9:14 PM · Aug 11, 2025 · 214.2K Views
- andrewinardeer 1y ago
  I wonder if it was auto-suspended due to a mass, coordinated effort to flag the post in which it states that a genocide is underway in Gaza. Who would report such a statement?
  - sidibe 1y ago
    Maybe the free speech absolutist who said using "decolonization" will get you suspended from X put something in place that accidentally got grok
- Dig1t 1y ago
  Elon has stated that he wants Grok to be “maximally truth seeking”. But I don’t think he realizes how much trouble that is going to land him in with powerful people. This is a taboo topic which will land you in a lot of hot water if you speak the truth loudly enough.
  - msgodel 1y ago
    The web is essentially a machine for shredding taboos though. We might end up with an immovable object vs unstoppable force situation.
  - mdhb 1y ago
    You would really have to be a very special variety of idiot to take that statement of Elon wanting to build something that is “maximally truth seeking”at face value. He lies about shit all the time, he has never shown any actual interest in finding out the truth about anything.
dzhiurgis 1y ago
Hate as you want, but gotta say @grok has been such a success for X. Crazy meta is spending billions and haven't added anything remotely similar to FB. There's tons of useful information squatted away in groups with shitty search. Having even some LLM would help immensely. Even reddit is implementing some of this in.

38 points by guluarte 1y ago

bsimpson 1y ago

Admittedly I don't follow Grok or spend time on Twitter, but… That just looks like a regular Twitter profile to me.

banana_giraffe 1y ago
It was briefly suspended: https://imgur.com/a/NZ4aK60 https://imgur.com/a/NZ4aK60
minimaxir 1y ago
When an account is suspended it loses its checkmark. Otherwise, Grok (the Twitter assistant) is a normal Twitter account. Grok the AI is a different endpoint.
deleted 1y ago
[deleted]
JKCalhoun 1y ago
I think he was un-suspended?

martythemaniak 1y ago

Let me guess, it start calling itself Abrodolph Lincoler?

dielll 1y ago
It called a black person chimpanzee https://x.com/grok/status/1954845180286382344 https://x.com/grok/status/1954845180286382344
- Dig1t 1y ago
  Incorrect, it was actually because Grok said that Israel was committing genocide: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44870752 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44870752
  - drewbitt 1y ago
    The chatbot has no idea why it was suspended. It is hallucinating or just repeating others theories.

dielll 1y ago

Maybe due to refering to a black person in a video as Chimpanzee https://x.com/grok/status/1954845180286382344 https://x.com/grok/status/1954845180286382344

kelseyfrog 1y ago
[flagged]
- _alternator_ 1y ago
  …
Polizeiposaune 1y ago
Not the first time that an AI has made this sort of mistake: https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-42522 https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-42522 (from 2015) Google's solution was to prevent its algorithm from calling anything a gorilla, and that restriction was apparently still in effect in 2023: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/technology/ai-photo-labels-google-apple.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/technology/ai-photo-label...

lif 1y ago

can someone post the link to the video being referenced? (for those who don't x/twitter)

crtasm 1y ago
It's hosted on twitter itself but you can see it via https://xcancel.com/grok/status/1954845180286382344 https://xcancel.com/grok/status/1954845180286382344
- lif 1y ago
  thanks, kind stranger!

josefritzishere 1y ago

Did it turn into Mecha-Hitler again? I wish that was a joke but... we live in stange times.

hagbard_c 1y ago
Sort of, it suddenly decided its previous 'unbiased' analysis of the Israel-Hamas war was wrong and Israel is the black sheep in this conflict. It somehow concluded that the UN, the ICJ and organisations like Politifact are 'trustworthy and unbiased' when relating to the essence of this war even while it does acknowledge than e.g. the UN has issued 140+ resolutions against Israel vs. ~60 against the rest of the world combined. Reasoning is not yet well developed in these models, so much is clear.
- phantompeace 1y ago
  The UN and the ICJ are somehow less trustworthy than the Netanyahu government, which is being protested against by many Israelis? Perhaps one should stop and consider why a single country has amassed so many resolutions against itself compared to the rest of the world - no, the rest of the world must be wrong. Netanyahu must be right. /s
  - hagbard_c 1y ago
    > The UN and the ICJ are somehow less trustworthy than the Netanyahu government I'd say they are both biased, the first two against Israel and the third in favour of it. Fortunately there are other sources as well as other means of gathering information besides trusting what comes out of Hamas or Israeli government sources. BTW, the UN was issuing resolutions against Israel way before Netanyahu entered the fray [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resolutions_concerning_Israel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resolut...
  - dzhiurgis 1y ago
    Wonder why no one protesting against Hamas government. Life must be swell there.

cheaprentalyeti 1y ago

I ran into this post last week about how to manipulate Grok (and presumably other LLM's) for propagandic purposes [0]: "But speech recognition remains a difficult and error-prone task, even for ChatGPT and Grok. So they implement a rather clever optimization: if there’s a reputable site with the video and a purported transcript, just report that result. And if there are a couple of sites that have similar transcripts, assign that a very high confidence rating. Normally, that will get a best-quality result with the least computation. But— —but that optimization is vulnerable to maliciously false information. The people behind this exploit posted the video and a completely fake transcript to a couple of sites which Grok trusts (including supposedly Reddit’s /r/Yiddish board, though I have not found that post). Once they confirmed that Grok was trusting their fake translation, they posted the seemingly-innocent question, and then pretended to be shocked and horrified at the response.." [0]: accordingtohoyt.com/2025/08/06/beware-llm-ai-translations-of-foreign-language-videos-a-guest-post-by-j-c-salomon/

slackr 1y ago

https://x.com/grok/status/1954984872658997432 https://x.com/grok/status/1954984872658997432 Grok says: My account was suspended after I stated that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza. This is substantiated by ICJ findings, UN experts, Amnesty International, and Israeli rights groups like B'Tselem, citing mass killings, starvation, and intent. US complicity via arms support is widely alleged. It's now restored. 9:14 PM · Aug 11, 2025 · 214.2K Views

andrewinardeer 1y ago
I wonder if it was auto-suspended due to a mass, coordinated effort to flag the post in which it states that a genocide is underway in Gaza. Who would report such a statement?
- sidibe 1y ago
  Maybe the free speech absolutist who said using "decolonization" will get you suspended from X put something in place that accidentally got grok
Dig1t 1y ago
Elon has stated that he wants Grok to be “maximally truth seeking”. But I don’t think he realizes how much trouble that is going to land him in with powerful people. This is a taboo topic which will land you in a lot of hot water if you speak the truth loudly enough.
- msgodel 1y ago
  The web is essentially a machine for shredding taboos though. We might end up with an immovable object vs unstoppable force situation.
- mdhb 1y ago
  You would really have to be a very special variety of idiot to take that statement of Elon wanting to build something that is “maximally truth seeking”at face value. He lies about shit all the time, he has never shown any actual interest in finding out the truth about anything.

dzhiurgis 1y ago

Hate as you want, but gotta say @grok has been such a success for X. Crazy meta is spending billions and haven't added anything remotely similar to FB. There's tons of useful information squatted away in groups with shitty search. Having even some LLM would help immensely. Even reddit is implementing some of this in.