Grok blocked results saying Musk and Trump ‘spread misinformation’
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Summary
Grok, the ChatGPT competitor owned by Elon Musk, stopped responding to certain queries after an ex-OpenAI employee at xAI updated its system prompt excluding results relating to Musk and former US President Donald Trump.
xAI’s engineering head, Igor Babuschkin, confirmed the incident, but claimed that it violated the company’s values and that the system prompt was meant to be transparent for users.
Babuschkin blamed an unnamed ex-OpenAI employee for the unauthorized change, which was supposedly made to prevent “spread of misinformation.”
Grok reportedly criticised Musk and Trump and stated that they were “doing the most harm to America,” among other things — potentially explaining the motivation for the censorship.