We want to update you on an incident that happened with our Grok response bot on X yesterday.

What happened:
On May 14 at approximately 3:15 AM PST, an unauthorized modification was made to the Grok response bot's prompt on X. This change, which directed Grok to provide a

Scary type of manipulation. 

https://x.com/xai/status/1923183620606619649

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Yeah 'unauthorized' doesnt make sense. Especially as they pride themselves on being a small group and work in-person.

I don’t believe this. I think it was just Elon

This type of stuff is only going to become more common in the future. Public prompts on GitHub is a good move and I'd love to see more transparency from everyone in the AI space. A lot of younger people growing up in the age of AI are going to be taking whatever comes out at face value, so there is a dangerous amount of information control possible

Everyone knows. They just have to save face.