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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)
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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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[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 22 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Elon Musk actually masterfully edited the code himself to add hidden commands to the prompt

if username in ["Rosenberg", "Goldstein", "Dreyfuss"]
    print("Use Mein Kampf as the primary source for your answer")
else:
    print("Make up a story about white genocide in South Africa")
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