Social media users asked Grok a series of questions about 'white genocide', revealing that the bot was trained to keep mentioning it

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has been frequently bringing up the concept of a “white genocide” in South Africa - even in unrelated conversations - and has said its creators instructed it to treat the concept as both real and racially driven.

When faced with unrelated questions on issues such as enterprise software and building scaffolding, Grok offered false and misleading answers.

As demonstrated by many on X, Grok has been consistently steering conversations towards the controversial topic of an alleged “white genocide” in South Africa, regardless of the original question, highlighting a growing tendency to shift focus to this narrative tied to Musk’s country of origin.

        • WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          19 days ago

          Open LLMs are finetuned on partially or fully synthetic data all the time

          That’s what I was suggesting.

          You explained to me you weren’t talking about “finetuning”, but training on completely synthetic data.

          (Fine-tuning happens after the LLM has already been trained)

            • WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              19 days ago

              The point I was trying to raise that wasn’t semantics was that if the majority of the full training data were synthetic, it could lead to model collapse.

              But luckily (or not?) a small amount of finetuning can be very effective in correcting the range of responses.