> Starting now, we are publishing our Grok system prompts openly on GitHub.
You guys remember when Elon promised to do that with the Twitter algorithm and conveniently forgot to update it after his grand gesture of transparency?
It's disturbing (though telling) that HN has enough Elon sycophants to moderate our discussion like this. Another example of how HN's community eschews real technical discussion to maintain the illusion of unconditional progress.
Elon decided he wanted to have Grok respond positively to allegations of “white genicode” in South Africa so he had his xAI engineers rewrite the system prompts to support the idea that “white genocide” exists. It then started talking about “white genocide” at every unrelated opportunity.
I don't see how making the source code public is helpful if there's a "{{custom_instructions}}" variable that can be inserted. It's not as if people are upset that "white genocide" was hard-coded into the prompt instead of being passed as a template variable.
The trust is already broken. They can claim they will open source the system prompt all they want but there's no point in believing what they say. Elon clearly does what Elon wants to do.
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You guys remember when Elon promised to do that with the Twitter algorithm and conveniently forgot to update it after his grand gesture of transparency?
Pepperidge Farm remembers: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43993332
Really unethical AI behavior by Elon.
The trust is already broken. They can claim they will open source the system prompt all they want but there's no point in believing what they say. Elon clearly does what Elon wants to do.
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