Grok faces backlash after being caught censoring negative remarks about Trump and Musk
Feb 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM

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.

Feb 24, 2025 by Mauricio B. Holguin

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Grok is a generative AI chatbot developed by xAI, launched in 2023 as part of Elon Musk's initiatives. Built on the large language model of the same name, it is designed to offer conversational interactions with a "sense of humor" and direct access to X. Grok is AI-powered, ad-free, and requires no coding. It is rated 3.5 and its top alternatives include ChatGPT, HuggingChat, and Perplexity.

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Mutant
Feb 26, 2025
0

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.

RDF0909
Feb 25, 2025
3

"It's bad now that the other side is doing it" is what every other political news piece boils down to now.

Azazel
Feb 24, 2025
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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!

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guck_foogle
Feb 25, 2025

It's going to be a long four years for TDS sufferers like you......

Azazel
Feb 25, 2025

That is if the US economy will even last four years under the ketamin+dementia induced freakshow 🫠

guck_foogle
Feb 25, 2025

It's already doing better than it was under Joe "My butt's been wiped!" Biden's regime.

UserPower
Feb 24, 2025
5

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.

Darlene Sonalder
Feb 24, 2025
0

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 🤡

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