Heard an xAI engineeer is being blamed for the recent Grok 3 shenanigans. No official word on that yet though.

Over the weekend, xAI launched a prompt update designed to reduce a “woke” bias in Grok’s answers. The new version instructed the chatbot to assume that media sources were often biased and to express opinions that might be considered politically acute.

After the update, Grok began producing content against Jewish individuals and communities. In one exchange, as seen on shared posts on X, the chatbot responded to StopAntisemitism with the claim that “Jews are overrepresented in anti-White activism.”

Shortly afterward, engineers at X disabled the chatbot from text responses, limiting its output to images only.

https://www.cryptopolitan.com/x-devs-disable-grok-ai-over-israel-remarks/

xAi has been doing a big recruitment drive in the last few months. Perhaps a honeypot op, a glowie engineer slipped (allowed?) through, or a DEI hire fail.

According to a report by CNBC TV18, in March, Musk had previously issued a global appeal for backend engineers to strengthen Grok's development and reliability. On X, Babuschkin announced a search for 'outstanding backend engineers to help keep Grok performing well and reliably.'

Musk reshared the post and underscored xAI's distinctive approach to AI development, stating, 'xAI is the only major AI company with an absolute focus on truth, whether politically correct or not.'

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/after-verifying-lie-grok-gets-lifeline-can-new-engineers-fix-elons-flailing-ai-1735430