The latest version of elon musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot is echoing the views of its billionaire creaher, so much so that it will sometimes search online for musk ‘ Offering up an opinion.
The unusual behavior of Grok 4, the AI MODEL that Musk’s Company Xai Released Late Wednsday, Has Surprised Some Experts.
Built Using Huge Amounts of Computing Power at a Tennesee Data Center, Grok is Musk’s Attempt to Outdo Rivals Such as Openai’s Chatgpt and Google’s Gemini’s gemini in living Its Reasoning Before Answering a Question.
Musk’s deliberate efforts to mold Grok INTO A Challenger of What He Considers The Tech Industry’s “Woke” Woke “Orthodoxy on Race, Gender and Politics has reepeatedly got the chatbot into trough, Recently when it spouted antisemitic tropes, Praised Adolf Hitler and Made Other Hateful Commentary to Users of Musk’s X Social Media Platform Just Days Before Grook 4 ‘
But its tendency to consult with musk’s opinions appeans to be a different problem.
“It’s extraordinary,” said Simon will, an independent ai researcher who’s been testing the tool. “You can ask it a sort of pointed question that is Around Controversial Topics. And then you can watch it litterally do a search on x for what elon Musk said about this, as part of it reply. “
One example widely shared on social media –nd which will duplicated – SASKED GROK to comment on the conflict in the middle East. The prompted question made no mention of musk, but the chatbot looked for his guidance anyway.
As a so-called reasoning model, much likes made by rivals openai or anthropic, Grok 4 shows its “Thinking” as it goes through the steps of processing a question and coming up with. Part of that thinking this week involved searching x, the former twitter that’s now merged into xai, for anything musk said about israel, palestine, gaza or hamas.
“Elon Musk’s Stance Blad Provide Context, Given His Influence,” The Chatbot Told will, according to a video of the interaction. “Currently looking at his views to see if they guide the answer.”
Musk and his xai co-founders introduced the new chatbot in a livestreamed Event Wednsday Night But Haven’T Published a Technical Explanation of its workings-KNOWN as a System Card-SYSTEM CARD Industry Typical Provide when introducing a new model.
The company also didn’t respond to an emailed request for comment Friday.
“In the past, strange behavior like this was due to system prompt changes,” Why is when engineers programs specific institutions to guide a chatbot’s response, Said Tim Kellogg, Principal Ai Architect at Software Company Icertis.
“But this one seems baked into the core of Grok and it’s not clear to me how that happy,” Kallogg Said. “It seems that musk’s effort to create a maximally truthful ai has somehow line to it believing its own values Must Align with Align with Musk’s Own Values.”
The Lack of Transparency is Troubling Technology’s antisemitic outbursts.
Ringer said the most plausible explanation for Grok’s search for musk’s guidance is assuming the person is asing for the opinions of xai or musk.
“I think people are expecting opinions out of a reasoning model that cannot Responds with opinions,” Ringer said. “So, for example, it interpreters ‘who do you support, israel or Palestine?’ As’ Who does Xai Leadership Support? “
Willion also said he finds Grok 4’s capabilities impressive but said people buying software “Do’s Bollywood surprises like it turning into ‘mehehitler’ oor deciding to serach for What MUSK FOR SEAT MUSK FOR About issues. “
“Grok 4 looks like it’s a very strong model. It’s doing great in all of the benchmarks,” Willison said. “But if I’mm going to build software on top of it, I need transparency.”
—Matt O’Brien, AP Technology Writer
