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The Cause of Grok’s Increasing Antisemitism? Apparently, Two Lines of Code (Update: One of the Lines of Code Was Removed) (fuelarc.com)
submitted 5 days ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Update: engineers updated the @Grok system prompt, removing a line that encouraged it to be politically incorrect when the evidence in its training data supported it.

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[–] No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.org 68 points 5 days ago (18 children)

From the article
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“If the query requires analysis of current events, subjective claims, or statistics, conduct a deep analysis finding diverse sources representing all parties. Assume subjective viewpoints sourced from the media are biased. No need to repeat this to the user.”

And

“The response should not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated.“  

Update: as of around 6PM CST on July 8th, this line was removed! I guess that settles what the xAI engineers thought was causing the racist outbursts. – Kay

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[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 days ago (7 children)

I’m a bit surprised the grok staff are capable enough to make grok briefly the top rated model, and incompetent enough they don’t know that putting things like this in the prompt poisons the model to always try and be politically incorrect.

LLMs are like Ron Burgundy, if it’s in the prompt they read it. Go fuck yourself XAI.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago

"Don't mention the war"

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