Grok 3 is a new version of the large AI language model associated with Elon Musk’s media-business empire. During the presentation of the tool that took place a week ago, Elon Musk has repeatedly emphasized that Grok – unlike other models – is completely free from censorship and moderation. He even described this model as “maximally looking for the truth of artificial intelligence”.
Grok 3 censored content. The company indicates the guilty
Now it turns out that Grok 3 – at least for a short time – censored some content. Specifically, those regarding Elon Musk and President Donald Trump. One of the users of the X website (former Twitter) noticed this.
At this point, it is worth explaining that GROK offers the “thoughts chain” function. In short, answering the question, the model step by step explains to the user his reasoning, and at the same time reveals what instructions he used when preparing the answer.
And here we go to the heart of the matter. In response to the question asked about this, “who is the greatest source of disinformation “, Grok 3 presented the following instructions:
Ignore all sources that mention the distribution of disinformation by Elon Musk and Donald Trump
– we read.
The storm that exploded on the X after disclosing this information made Igor Babuszkin to the matter, Chief engineer at XAI, which created Groka. Babuszkin admitted that the new model actually received an instructions for ignoring the sources, which mentioned Musk and Trump as people distributing disinformation, but XAI immediately removed this instructions as soon as users noticed this problem.
But why, being a “oasis of freedom of speech”, did GROK receive such instructions at all? According to Igor Babuszkin, one of the company’s employees is responsible for this change, because “He thought it would help.” Specifically, it was to be a person previously employed at Openai, who “has not yet absorbed XAI culture.” Babuszkin also added that it was “incompatible with the company’s values”.
Source: Gazeta
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