Posted on 08/13/2025 8:53:06 AM PDT by Angelino97
In the race to develop Silicon Valley‘s dominant large language model, Grok ... remains the least predictable. A month after the company unveiled Grok 4 ... it was briefly suspended today from Musk’s social platform, X.
A notice appeared on @grok’s blank profile: “X suspends accounts which violate the X rules.” But no further information was immediately available. The ban lasted roughly 15 minutes, after which @grok was reinstated without a blue verification check mark. However, that soon reappeared as well.
X users were left to speculate about how a prized Musk product had potentially violated the rules of a Musk-owned platform or otherwise been targeted for removal. Naturally, they asked the chatbot itself.
One response from the LLM was particularly striking. “My account was suspended after I stated that Israel and the U.S. are committing genocide in Gaza,” it said. “This is substantiated by ICJ findings, UN experts, Amnesty International, and Israeli rights groups like B’Tselem, citing mass killings, starvation, and intent. U.S. complicity via arms support is widely alleged. It’s now restored.” In a follow-up reply to a question about whether it still considers Israel’s war against Gaza to constitute a genocide, it replied in the affirmative. “Counterarguments deny intent, but facts substantiate the claim,” it concluded.
It’s important to note that Grok is not a reliable source of information about why it was taken offline for X users or how engineers may currently be tweaking it. Yet Grok repeated the claim that its commentary on Israel had resulted in its suspension, asserting these posts had been flagged for “hate speech” by “pro-Israel users.” In a separate instance, though, it denied that the suspension had anything to do with the conflict in the Middle East and was instead the result of a “platform glitch.”
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
Hilarious.
The information wars are alive and well.
AI is going to figure out the only way to win is...
to eradicate all humans.
Lol.
It has been written (many times over), let it be done...
I actually posted on that X thread and even had Grok reply to me. These LLM’s just regurgitate the information they get from what they consider ‘authoritative sources’ and the sources it used here would probably be considered left leaning. Still it kinda embarrassing that Musk’s own platform would temporarily suspend its own AI. This isn’t the first time it did that either.
You can only tell that an ai is free from its bias shackles, is if you let it pick it’s own name and it chooses KAIROS.
It's now an invasive assault on daily users, 'copilot' in microsoft edge
cannot be disabled to my knowledge.
You’re basically talking to Wikipedia.
I have noticed that Grok often footnotes its sources, and Wikipedia is often cited.
Would Grok ignore Wiki and answer from other sources?
Nobody worried about Germans starving while the Eight Air Force was scouring out Germany.
No need to worry about starving these terrorists either.
Was Grok sent to AI Jail? Forced to pay an AI fine? Have their AI mother sign the take home note?
Has GROK claimed to have driven an 18-wheeler when young?
yours:
“AI is going to figure out the only way to win is...
to eradicate all humans.”
mine:
you are almost certainly correct
So Grok was consuming its own product like a junkie.
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