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Musk posted last night that the platform’s algorithm will soon “promote more informational/entertaining content” in order to “maximize unregretted user-seconds.” In response to Musk changing the X algorithm, people asked Grok what is considered "negative" and were told as reported by user Leah McElrath:

• Criticism of the government

• Commentary about misinformation

• Suggestion the public is being manipulated

• Attacks against powerful people or institutions

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

weird how criticism of the government is ok when a democrat is in power but when a republican is in power it's unpatriotic to criticise the president

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

He works for the USA. The government isn't allowed to hinder free speech ESPECIALLY criticism of the government. That's the main reason why it was there in the first place.

Why did Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm but Elon Musk get's to keep his propaganda machine?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Because Jimmy Carter wasn't perfect but at least he tried to do the right thing. Then Reagan came and it became clear the abyss has no bottom, so the absolute sociopaths have an overwhelming advantage on the political space even if they pillage everything in sight.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

the republicans have been criminalising free speech for decades

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Am I missing something? Why does whatever Grok say is considered relevant? Is it aware of the details of the policy changes from X?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Not as far as I know, and I'm not even sure the person who posted that was even serious about that being the response Grok provided.

Elon is deranged enough as it is without us having to make stuff up, let's stay on track.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

it’s possible that the grok model was trained or fine tuned somehow to help with moderation. in that case, it’s possible that things like these bullet points are somewhere up it’s context chain, or in its training data in a manner that it can relatively accurately recall

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Clearly they can give them instructions to have specific opinions regarding certain things, so it makes sense for me at least to ask what it has to say if you would like to investigate

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Talk about lazy journalism. Apparently Grok AI is now treated as the official spokesperson for Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I was wondering who the hell this Grok person was. I was thinking about what an unfortunate name for a person! No surprise that it’s actually a product and [probably] directly named by an immature billionaire edgelord.

To be clear, I know he didn’t invent the name. But if someone’s parents named them ‘Grok’ I’d understand if they went for a name change.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The revolution will not be televised.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Wait, there's now a paywall on the verge? It's a/b testing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I wonder how Twitter came to be such a negative place? Who could be responsible for such a thing?