“Grok Grok” by Zvi

This is a post in two parts.

The first half is the post is about Grok's capabilities, now that we’ve all had more time to play around with it. Grok is not as smart as one might hope and has other issues, but it is better than I expected and for now has its place in the rotation, especially for when you want its Twitter integration.

That was what this post was supposed to be about.

Then the weekend happened, and now there's also a second half. The second half is about how Grok turned out rather woke and extremely anti-Trump and anti-Musk, as well as trivial to jailbreak, and the rather blunt things xAI tried to do about that. There was some good transparency in places, to their credit, but a lot of trust has been lost. It will be extremely difficult to win it [...]

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Outline:

(01:21) Zvi Groks Grok

(03:39) Grok the Cost

(04:29) Grok the Benchmark

(06:02) Fun with Grok

(08:33) Others Grok Grok

(11:26) Apps at Play

(12:38) Twitter Groks Grok

(13:38) Grok the Woke

(19:06) Grok is Misaligned

(20:07) Grok Will Tell You Anything

(24:29) xAI Keeps Digging (1)

(29:21) xAI Keeps Digging (2)

(39:14) What the Grok Happened

(43:29) The Lighter Side

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First published:
February 24th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tpLfqJhxcijf5h23C/grok-grok

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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