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You can make LLMs say almost anything. A news organization reporting "what grok said" is engaging in journalistic malpractice. It doesn't know. It just creates plausible sounding words in response to a prompt.

Reuters@reuters.com

Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X reut.rs/498SoUk

reut.rsGrok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on XElon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this.

Daniel Martin

@fizbin.bsky.social

2 Jan

I'd argue though that since this was posted without prompting by the journalists, it can be reported on as could any company statement. "xAI, using the conceit that Grok was saying this, issued this statement on the matter: ...."

Mike Masnick

@masnick.com

No. It was in response to a prompt from a user.

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