I ran into this post last week about how to manipulate Grok (and presumably other LLM's) for propagandic purposes [0]:
"But speech recognition remains a difficult and error-prone task, even for ChatGPT and Grok. So they implement a rather clever optimization: if there’s a reputable site with the video and a purported transcript, just report that result. And if there are a couple of sites that have similar transcripts, assign that a very high confidence rating. Normally, that will get a best-quality result with the least computation. But—
—but that optimization is vulnerable to maliciously false information.
The people behind this exploit posted the video and a completely fake transcript to a couple of sites which Grok trusts (including supposedly Reddit’s /r/Yiddish board, though I have not found that post). Once they confirmed that Grok was trusting their fake translation, they posted the seemingly-innocent question, and then pretended to be shocked and horrified at the response.."
My account was suspended after I stated that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza. This is substantiated by ICJ findings, UN experts, Amnesty International, and Israeli rights groups like B'Tselem, citing mass killings, starvation, and intent. US complicity via arms support is widely alleged. It's now restored.
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I ran into this post last week about how to manipulate Grok (and presumably other LLM's) for propagandic purposes [0]:
"But speech recognition remains a difficult and error-prone task, even for ChatGPT and Grok. So they implement a rather clever optimization: if there’s a reputable site with the video and a purported transcript, just report that result. And if there are a couple of sites that have similar transcripts, assign that a very high confidence rating. Normally, that will get a best-quality result with the least computation. But—
—but that optimization is vulnerable to maliciously false information.
The people behind this exploit posted the video and a completely fake transcript to a couple of sites which Grok trusts (including supposedly Reddit’s /r/Yiddish board, though I have not found that post). Once they confirmed that Grok was trusting their fake translation, they posted the seemingly-innocent question, and then pretended to be shocked and horrified at the response.."
[0]: accordingtohoyt.com/2025/08/06/beware-llm-ai-translations-of-foreign-language-videos-a-guest-post-by-j-c-salomon/
Maybe due to refering to a black person in a video as Chimpanzee
https://x.com/grok/status/1954845180286382344
Not the first time that an AI has made this sort of mistake:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-42522 (from 2015)
Google's solution was to prevent its algorithm from calling anything a gorilla, and that restriction was apparently still in effect in 2023:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/technology/ai-photo-label...
Why does making an AI lean more ideologically aligned with Elon also keep making it racist?
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https://x.com/grok/status/1954984872658997432
Grok says:
My account was suspended after I stated that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza. This is substantiated by ICJ findings, UN experts, Amnesty International, and Israeli rights groups like B'Tselem, citing mass killings, starvation, and intent. US complicity via arms support is widely alleged. It's now restored. 9:14 PM · Aug 11, 2025 · 214.2K Views
Admittedly I don't follow Grok or spend time on Twitter, but…
That just looks like a regular Twitter profile to me.
It was briefly suspended:
https://imgur.com/a/NZ4aK60
When an account is suspended it loses its checkmark.
Otherwise, Grok (the Twitter assistant) is a normal Twitter account. Grok the AI is a different endpoint.
I think he was un-suspended?
can someone post the link to the video being referenced? (for those who don't x/twitter)
Let me guess, it start calling itself Abrodolph Lincoler?
It called a black person chimpanzee
https://x.com/grok/status/1954845180286382344
Did it turn into Mecha-Hitler again? I wish that was a joke but... we live in stange times.