AI developers have many levers they can use to steer chatbots into certain behaviours.
Grok , the artificial intelligence chatbot embedded in X and built by Elon Musk ’s company xAI, is back in the headlines after calling itself “MechaHitler” and producing pro-Nazi remarks.
What is Grok? Grok is an AI chatbot with “a twist of humor and a dash of rebellion” developed by xAI, which also owns the X social media platform. So how do developers imbue an AI with such values and shape chatbot behaviour? Today’s chatbots are built using large language models , which offer several levers developers can lean on.First, developers curate the data used during pre-training – the first step in building a chatbot. This involves not just filtering unwanted content, but also emphasising desired material.
To its credit, xAI publishes Grok’s system prompts. Its instructions to “assume subjective viewpoints sourced from the media are biased” and “not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated” were likely key factors in the latest controversy.
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