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Re:Co-founder of Elon Musk's xAI departs the company by elcritch on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @11:59PM (#44896607)
xAIs prompts are open?! Wow that's pretty impressive.
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Re:Co-founder of Elon Musk's xAI departs the company by pavlov on Thursday August 14, 2025 @02:23AM (#44897305)
In the same sense that DOGE's receipts are open.

They publish something that looks good, and the reality is something else.

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Re:Co-founder of Elon Musk's xAI departs the company by DaSHacka on Thursday August 14, 2025 @07:53AM (#44899323)
So they don't actually publish the correct prompts, and are just lying? Do you have a source for that?
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Re:Co-founder of Elon Musk's xAI departs the company by pavlov on Thursday August 14, 2025 @08:45AM (#44899754)
A "rogue employee" [1] at xAI recently tweaked the prompts to make Grok talk about "white genocide" in South Africa in response to completely unrelated queries:

https://apnews.com/article/grok-ai-south-africa-64ce5f240061...

These modifications didn't seem to get reflected in the published xAI prompts.

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[1] Musk himself, obviously

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