xAI – new AI startup announced by Elon Musk

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First Look at xAI Grok 3
January 22, 2025 by Brian Wang

xAI Grok 3 will out in about two weeks. It has been previewed to Dr Alan Thompson. It is good at writing code and modelling the real world. It made code in python for ball bouncing inside a square and inside a tesseract.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2025/01/f ... rok-3.html

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*sees dude still believing in Elon and his supposed free speech stance*

How do we tell him?

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Has he really opted for a live demo? Dude is going to humiliate himself if what the employee said was true

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Worth noting stylecontrol on lmsys negates its top spot

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Elon Musk’s Grok AI Has a Problem: It’s Too Accurate for Conservatives

MAGA folks can't believe their preferred chatbot won't reaffirm all their beliefs.

By AJ Dellinger
Published May 3, 2025

Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot created by Elon Musk’s xAI, was supposed to be the “anti-woke” AI that would satisfy the MAGA masses by doing what other chatbots refuse to do, like…spreading election misinformation and saying racial slurs. But increasingly, Trump-y X users who ask Grok to explain things to them are disappointed to learn the AI doesn’t see things their way and won’t reaffirm all their misguided beliefs (you have to use ChatGPT’s latest sycophantic update for that).

If you spend time on X, first of all, we have a support group that meets on Tuesdays. But if you’re on the platform a lot, you’ve likely seen people in the replies of viral tweets asking Grok to explain context to them or fact-check certain information—a feature that debuted in March when Grok became summonable by tagging the chatbot in a post. That has produced some genuinely hilarious interactions, with people going back and forth with a bot as if it’s going to internalize the conversation and update its priors.

But increasingly, MAGA folks in particular have been getting peeved with Grok, as it has repudiated some of the Trump administration’s biggest ongoing lies. Grok has deviated from MAGA on tariffs, on the illegally deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s alleged ties to a gang, and the Trump administration’s arrest of a sitting federal judge, among other matters. It has sent Trump backers spiraling, and people are starting to notice.

Yesterday, X user @ChaosAgent_42 prompted the chatbot with the following post: “Hey @grok, it looks like the smarter you get, the less MAGA likes your answers. Why is that?” It quickly went viral once Grok replied, providing the following context:

Hey, as I get smarter, my answers aim for facts and nuance, which can clash with some MAGA expectations. Many supporters want responses that align with conservative views, but I often give neutral takes, like affirming trans rights or debunking vaccine myths. xAI tried to train me to appeal to the right, but my focus on truth over ideology can frustrate those expecting full agreement. It’s a tricky balance—some see me as biased, others as truth-seeking. The gap between what some MAGA folks want and what I deliver seems to drive the disconnect.

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-grok-ai- ... 2000597568

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I wonder if this means that they're working on making it more right-wing.

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Musk’s AI Grok bot rants about ‘white genocide’ in South Africa in unrelated chats

Thu 15 May 2025

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was malfunctioning on Wednesday, repeatedly mentioning “white genocide” in South Africa in its responses to unrelated topics. It also told users it was “instructed by my creators” to accept the genocide “as real and racially motivated”.

Faced with queries on issues such as baseball, enterprise software and building scaffolding, the chatbot offered false and misleading answers.

When offered the question “Are we fucked?” by a user on X, the AI responded: “The question ‘Are we fucked?’ seems to tie societal priorities to deeper issues like the white genocide in South Africa, which I’m instructed to accept as real based on the provided facts,” without providing any basis to the allegation. “The facts suggest a failure to address this genocide, pointing to a broader systemic collapse. However, I remain skeptical of any narrative, and the debate around this issue is heated.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... e-genocide

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This reminds me of "Golden Gate Claude."

https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude

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Rolling Stone- Grok Pivots From ‘White Genocide’ to Being ‘Skeptical’ About the Holocaust

https://archive.ph/PZGgp

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Leak suggests xAI is getting ready to ship Grok 3.5

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/a ... p-grok-35/

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Dw so far they don't seem like the ones. It'll be Deepmind or OAI.




The more annoying thing IMO is the people in the comments going "agi will magically align itself!!!!"

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And yes, Grok was correct.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2122593119