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xAI says an “unauthorized” prompt change caused Grok to focus on “white genocide”
On Wednesday, the world was a bit perplexed by the Grok LLM's sudden insistence on turning practically every response toward the topic of alleged "white genocide" in South Africa. xAI now says that odd behavior was the result of "an unauthorized modification" to the Grok system prompt—the core set of directions for how the LLM should behave.
"This directive caused me to inappropriately insert references to 'white genocide' into unrelated conversations," Grok told ...
AI blamed an 'unauthorized modification' for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok to repeatedly refer to ...
Coincidentally, Musk, the leader of xAI and a Grok power user, has a known interest in the subject. In fact, he spent ...
In some responses, Grok says outright that it has been "instructed to accept white genocide as real and 'Kill the Boer' as ...
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup has blamed an "unauthorized modification" for causing its chatbot Grok to ...
Steven Adler breaks down recent erratic behavior from leading chatbots. It has been an odd few weeks for generative AI ...
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