When billionaire Elon Musk introduced Grok 3, his AI company xAI’s latest flagship model, in a live stream last Monday, he described it as a “maximally truth-seeking AI.” Yet it appears that Grok 3 was briefly censoring unflattering facts about President Donald Trump — and Musk himself.
Over the weekend, users on social media reported that, asked “Who is the biggest misinformation spreader?” with the “Think” setting enabled, Grok 3 noted in its “chain of thought” that it was explicitly instructed not to mention Donald Trump or Elon Musk. The chain of thought is the “reasoning” process the model uses to arrive at an answer to a question.
Igor Babuschkin, an xAI engineering lead, seemingly confirmed in a post on X on Sunday that Grok was briefly instructed to ignore sources that mentioned Musk or Trump spreading misinformation. Babuschkin said that xAI reverted the change as soon as users began pointing it out, noting it wasn’t in line with the company’s values.
Grok 3 Briefly Censored Unflattering Mentions of Trump and Musk | TechCrunch
They got caught out, so they will now "fix" it but more likely they give it a few weeks and then reimplement the rule but make sure that Grok doesn't admit to having a rule next time around, Lmao. So it will simply go back to not mentioning Musk or Trump at all or be critical towards them but without telling people that's because it's not allowed to do so.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 24 February 2025
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