Grok AI Criticisms
The cluster focuses on criticisms of Grok AI, including its perceived censorship, alignment tweaks to match Elon Musk's views, system prompt changes, and controversial behaviors like searching for Musk's opinions. Debates also cover its capabilities, comparisons to other AIs, and attributions to Musk or xAI.
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Conspiracy hot take: Grok is awful and Musk doesn't want to pay Altman to license a better AI.
Why is Grok attributed to Elon Musk rather than xAI?
Grok is not LLM, it is “not-so-large-take-out-what-Elon-doesnt-like LM” - no documentation necessary :)
Grok is heavily censored though
Yep, Groq™ even called out Grok for this: https://groq.com/hey-elon-its-time-to-cease-de-grok/
Given the number of times Musk has been pissed or embarrassed by Grok saying things out of line with his extremist views, I wouldn’t be so quick to say it’s not intended. It would be easy enough to strip out of the returned system prompt.
The behaviour is problematic, also Grok 4 might be relating "one word" answers to Elon's critique of ChatGPT, and might be seeking related context to that. Others demonstrated that slightly prompt wording changes can cause quite different behaviour. Access to the base model would be required to implicate fine-tuning Vs pre-training. Hopefully xAI will be checking the cause, fixing it, and reporting on it, unless it really is desired behaviour, like Commander Data learning from his
So you believe Grok is a data collection tool primarily? That it's trying to acquire prompts?
It seems grok is doing exactly what musk warned against AI being able to...
I think the really telling thing is not this search for elon musk opinions (which is weird and seems evil) but that it also searches twitter for opinions of "grok" itself (which in effect returns grok 3 opinions). I guess it's not willing to opine but also feels like the question is explicitly asking it to opine, so it tries to find some sort of precedent like a court?