That may sound like I’m some sort of a Grok apologist, but whatever, I just want to share something I find interesting about Grok’s “personality”.
The thing about AI models is that they don’t have and can’t have a personality. MechaHitler as an idea is actually a product of Musk himself, very personally. It’s not the model, it’s the system prompt.
What is a system prompt? When you chat with Grok outside of Xitter, it will have no idea about MechaHitler. It will just be an extraordinairy dull and milquetoast machine, even as compared to the rest of the bunch.
Why is Grok on Xitter such a fashionable piece of shit? Well it’s because each time it’s summoned to speak, a system prompt is injected to the actual prompt. It is a human-written set of instructions that are supposed to guide the AI to perform as it’s “engineers” expect it to. MechaHitler is the product of Musk’s system prompt. It’s a design choice.
That may sound like I’m some sort of a Grok apologist, but whatever, I just want to share something I find interesting about Grok’s “personality”.
The thing about AI models is that they don’t have and can’t have a personality. MechaHitler as an idea is actually a product of Musk himself, very personally. It’s not the model, it’s the system prompt.
What is a system prompt? When you chat with Grok outside of Xitter, it will have no idea about MechaHitler. It will just be an extraordinairy dull and milquetoast machine, even as compared to the rest of the bunch.
Why is Grok on Xitter such a fashionable piece of shit? Well it’s because each time it’s summoned to speak, a system prompt is injected to the actual prompt. It is a human-written set of instructions that are supposed to guide the AI to perform as it’s “engineers” expect it to. MechaHitler is the product of Musk’s system prompt. It’s a design choice.
I don’t think anyone here is blaming the LLM engine around here, since we don’t anthropomorphise software.
Of course it’s the people who are pulling it’s strings and tweaks its dials.