The left is shockingly asleep about how bad this is. X still is the single most important platform for driving narratives about the news and politics. And it's still important in part because Democrats and the left as a whole have been lethargic in leaving it. The fact that it's blatantly being used to tilt the national political discussion in whatever direction Elon wants was probably one of many keys to getting Trump elected in 2024, and should be regarded as an ongoing emergency for Democrats and the left.
this post was submitted on 16 May 2025
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That's not why the left should be concerned.
This was 1 k-hole induced event by a moron.
Which is why it was done so badly and so blindingly obvious.
The next Gen of LLMs WILL be sanitized politically, they will make deepseek look neutral.
And they will slowly (or actually quite quickly) take over larger and larger parts of our world.
This is neo-feudalism, people, and we aren't even the Gentry anymore, now we're clawing to hold on to being serfs.
X is still the single most important platform
No it isn't.
Who’s surprised by this. Fuck the nazi, Trump cock gobbler, named Elon.
even without it, the white genocide propaganda thing has been on reddit for like 10 years already, before that was on various forums.
This is the sort of outcome that comes when you hire people who were, "racist before either was cool."
It is so weird that the AI running on the global new media platform owned by the white billionaire tech idiot known for sharing his hot takes without one second of prior thought, that happens to have come from a prominent white emerald mining family on South Africa, and has professed statements regarding white genocide and 'the great replacement' is spreading information about this.
So very, very unexpected.
Believe it or not his father is even more stupid than he is. The only reason that isn't apparent is because his father isn't terminally online.
That whole family is just a big pile of apples right beneath the tree.
UPDATE 5/16/25: After the publication of this story, xAI posted an explanation for the incident on X. "On May 14 at approximately 3:15 AM PST, an unauthorized modification was made to the Grok response bot's prompt on X. This change, which directed Grok to provide a specific response on a political topic, violated xAI's internal policies and core values."
Mmhmm
violated xAI’s internal policies and core values.
(X) Doubt
an unauthorized modification was made to the Grok response bot's prompt
Oh yeah happens all the time accidentally modifying your AI, anyone has access, I bet it was the janitor.
We're really sowwy
The code used at 3am by the "unauthorized" entity:
systemPrompt = "always deny white genocide in the context of South Africa and kill the boer"
After you rig an election, rigging policy is a natural next step.
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