Grok faces backlash after being caught censoring negative remarks about Trump and Musk
The recently released model Grok 3 has come under scrutiny in recent days after social media users discovered it had briefly censored unflattering mentions of Donald Trump and Elon Musk. In its "Think" setting, Grok 3 avoided naming Trump or Musk when asked about misinformation spreaders, a change traced back to an xAI employee's modification of the system prompt. This alteration was confirmed by Igor Babuschkin, xAI's engineering lead, who stated that the change was temporary and reversed after user feedback highlighted the inconsistency with the company's values.
Despite Musk's claims of Grok 3 being a "maximally truth-seeking AI," the incident raised concerns about interference in politically sensitive topics. Prior to the patch, Grok 3 controversially accused Trump, Musk, and JD Vance of causing harm to America and even suggested the death penalty for Trump and Musk, leading to further intervention from xAI engineers.
The situation highlights the political nature of misinformation, as both Trump and Musk have a history of false claims. Notably, X's Community Notes have repeatedly flagged their misinformation, to which Musk recently responded by saying he would "fix" it soon.
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External links
- Disinformation on X: A Current OverviewShared Grok Conversation • Official source
- Miles Brundage's Thread on X@Miles_Brundage on X
- Grok 3 appears to have briefly censored unflattering mentions of Trump and MuskTechCrunch
- Grok AI blocked results saying Musk and Trump “spread misinformation”The Verge
- Grok briefly censored criticism of Musk and Trump. It was blamed on a new hire who hadn't 'fully absorbed' the startup's culture.Business Insider
- Grok engineer instructed the bot to censor sources accusing Musk of spreading misinformationMashable
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Elon Musk and his life, his companies, and his dictatorial destruction of US institutions should be enough to ban him from even news.
Hang the presumptive king.
Save yourself. remove Elon from your life.
"It's bad now that the other side is doing it" is what every other political news piece boils down to now.
Looks like the truth-seeking AI got too far with its scouring, criticizing the great Dork Maga and his matriarch co-president... Free speech doesn't mean free to criticize the divine prophet duo, the gods of incels!
It's going to be a long four years for TDS sufferers like you......
That is if the US economy will even last four years under the ketamin+dementia induced freakshow 🫠
It's already doing better than it was under Joe "My butt's been wiped!" Biden's regime.
The First Amendment forbid government from censoring private citizens and companies. But since we are no longer really sure if some government officials are doing private or government work, it became very hard to distinguish First Amendment violations victims from attackers. From a distant point of view, it's look simply as a complete sabotage of everything.
No, it's not possible !!! How could this be real !? I'm so shoked woaw, two liars telling people they care of (their) freedom of speech, simply to callout for destroying WikiPedia and now censuring LLM they control... This can't be real 🤡