X's Grok AI Angers MAGA Supporters

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   GA Andersonposted 3 weeks ago

   A morning chuckle.
   
   MAGA Angry as Elon Musk's Grok AI Keeps Explaining Why Their Beliefs Are Factually Incorrect
   
   "Far-right posters on Elon Musk's social media platform X-formerly-Twitter keep getting frustrated by being confronted with a dose of reality after posing questions to the billionaire's AI chatbot Grok."
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   "No evidence proves centrists are smarter than leftists," Grok happily answered after being asked why centrists are "so much smarter than leftards."
   
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   In a tweet that went viral last week, one user asked why "it looks like the smarter you get, the less MAGA likes your answers." The chatbot had a hilarious answer.
   
   "Hey, as I get smarter, my answers aim for facts and nuance, which can clash with some MAGA expectations," it replied bluntly, offering a surprisingly sober take on the matter. "Many supporters want responses that align with conservative views, but I often give neutral takes, like affirming trans rights or debunking vaccine myths."
   
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      Ken Burgessposted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

      Musk enemy... even Grok AI knows this... Musk and Trump bad...
      
      Me no Grok but me plenty smart to know what told about Musk is right.

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         GA Andersonposted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

         ... and the chuckle continues.
         
         GA

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      Kyler J Falkposted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

      I have never used Twitter, nor have I used X and intend to continue my ignorance, so my opinion is extremely limited here:
      
      Don't you have to manually get Gronk to respond to you, and in order for the response to occur you must also enter a specific prompt before doing so, then the response is denoted by some sort of yellow check/highlight to verify that it was in fact prompt generated?
      
      This is the only argument I've seen to really bring Gronk's responses into question as legitimate, or geared toward a specific viewpoint when it responds to posts. Outside of mis/malinformation that requires manual prompting from moderators and moderating algorithms, I was under the impression that Gronk doesn't automatically generate a response to content.

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         GA Andersonposted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

         You lost me. Grok's purpose is to answer queries/prompts.
         
         GA

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            Kyler J Falkposted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

            All of the examples I've seen from the statements listed in the OP where people are getting upset, are people getting upset over prompted responses.
            
            For example: Someone makes a post, I tell Grok, "Grok, retort to this post in a professional way from a leftist perspective," as opposed to Grok truly just reading something and responding as it naturally would.
            
            I was more asking whether or not that was the case, or if Grok goes out of the prompt's way to specifically use ideology-based/colloquial language? My understanding is that Grok does not read and respond to posts outside of a specific prompt requested of it that guides its tonality and perspective.

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               GA Andersonposted 3 weeks agoin reply to this

               You already know more about it than I do. I like Grok for images and questions.
               
               GA

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