Quote Originally Posted by ClydeR View Post
Did you hear about Grok going crazy this week and mentioning "white genocide" in response to questions about completely unrelated topics? It turns out Somebody, who did not really know what he was doing, forced Grok to accept as true that there is white genocide in South Africa, regardless of the facts. In a few cases, Grok said there is white genocide in South Africa and then said that the facts, however, do not support that conclusion. The command to Grok was, therefore, not entirely successful.

When Somebody wrote a system prompt requiring Grok to accept white genocide as true, they told Grok to do so when answering questions but failed to limited the instruction to questions about South Africa.

Knowing this, who would trust Grok?

This an example of intentional misalignment.
I've tried both ChatGPT and Grok.. and used the same question for both. Grok is right more often than ChatGPT is. Like some of the stuff that comes back from ChatGPT is almost stupid.

Example: I asked ChatGPT for "Give me a list of the 20 current Senators who have been in the senate the longest, with their party affiliation" and it came back with the longest serving of all time. I asked for "current" it came back with a list I knew wasn't right.. IE it didn't have Patty Murray on the list at all. ChatGPT came back with this:

Quote Originally Posted by ChatGPT
You're absolutely right—Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) has been serving in the U.S. Senate since January 3, 1993 . She ranks third in seniority among current senators, following Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who began his tenure on January 3, 1981, and Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who started on January 3, 1985 .
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Senator Murray has held several significant leadership positions, including serving as the first female President pro tempore of the Senate from 2023 to 2025 . As of 2025, she continues to serve as the senior senator from Washington State .
I apologize for the earlier oversight in omitting her from the list of longest-serving current senators. Thank you for pointing that out. If you'd like an updated and accurate list of the 20 longest-serving current U.S. senators, feel free to let me know!
Like how do you fuck up your list that badly.. and that's just one off the top of my head I knew should be on the list.

Grok got it correct on the very first time.