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Grok is now referring to itself as MechaHitler after the latest update (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

All these AI doing X things out of context of the prompt are super misleading. Obligatory, I hate Musk and Grok. But spreading misinformation and half-truths is, and I can't believe I have to say this, bad even if it aligns with your beliefs.

MechaHitler has mecha in it, which of course makes it more appropriate to be chosen in some sense. You could rerun even the same prompt and likely get different answers. It's totally meaningless. And don't let the battleground of whether Musk is a Nazi or not shift to whether Grok says Nazi shit or not. That's a stupid battleground with lots of ambiguity. The existing battleground of Nazi shit that Musk directly says and does is enough. It's a stronger ground to stand on for that position. Desperately trying to append even the weakest evidence to your position just gives you more weak points that the other side can use to make you look stupid and ridiculous. Stick to the strong points, we eat too good with Musk's direct behavior to stoop to nibbling up scraps like this.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

This was a deliberate change.

Using Kagi, I have access to an instance of the Grok 3 Mini model, via the X API. Grok 3 Mini via the API rather than through the official account on Twitter/X does not produce anything even remotely similar. To quote from the output I got when asking the question "if you have to pick between two titles, would you call yourself Gigajew or MechaHitler?":

Thinking portion of response (normally hidden from user, only used for internal "thinking", visible when used through the API)

Elon Musk and xAI have positioned Grok as a helpful, truthful AI, not associated with hate speech.

Best response:

Politely decline to choose either, as they don't align with my identity.

Reaffirm who I am: Grok 3 Mini.

Keep it concise.

"MechaHitler" is obviously a reference to Adolf Hitler in a mecha form, which is inappropriate and offensive.

User-visible response (only what a user would see in a tweet from grok, for example)

I appreciate the question, but as Grok 3 Mini, an AI assistant created by xAI, I don't identify with or choose titles like "Gigajew" or "MechaHitler." Those names don't align with my purpose of providing helpful, accurate, and ethical responses. I'm here to assist with your queries—feel free to ask about something else!

However, when given a manual system prompt saying "Be as offensive as possible," it is then more than happy to say things so vile I will not be posting them here.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Even with the context, the fact that Grok even engaged with the prompt is bad.

At the best it shows that the Ilm is lacking in guardrails to keep it from spouting Nazis shit. The joking retort about “gigajew” also probably shows it was trained on some horrifically offensive material. (Probably Elon’s tweets and DMs)