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Not haywire. It was specifically prompted to get that output.
It was asked leading questions about embarrassing topics, but the over-the-top, fawning praise for Musk was baked into the responses without being specifically requested in the prompts.
I think this is the main story. I don't think it's new info, but it confirms the issue persists: this LLM is so heavily trained to fawn over Musk that it doesn't exercise any application of context or attempt to find truth.
Which is sad.
No current AI understands context, they are just glorified word predictions!
I agree and go further; no AI understands anything. Just like a calculator doesn't understand "2+2=4", it's just pushing numbers around.
Grok is Harrison Bergeron and Musk is Diana Glampers
It's really just an affirmation machine for tech bros
Yes, just some people figuring out that Grok was steered toward ass-kissing Musk no matter what, and exploited that for funny output. So the takeaways are: