Last April, X's billionaire owner, Elon Musk, tease A mysterious “unhinged mode” for X's AI-powered chatbot, Grok. About a year later, XAI, the Musk-owned company behind Grok An FAQ page has been updated on its website which highlights the new mode.
Grok in Unhinged Mode will provide responses “intended to be offensive, inappropriate, and offensive,” according to the FAQ page — “much like an amateur stand-up comic who's still learning the craft.”
The mod doesn't seem to be live yet. TechCrunch tried in vain to find it on X's Grok web interface.
The unhinged mode could be Mask's attempt to give Grok an original look.
When Musk announced Grok nearly two years ago, he characterized the chatbot as sharp, unfiltered, and anti-“wook”—in ways that other AI systems willing to answer generally, controversial questions would not. He delivered on some of those promises. Asked to be vulgar, for example, Grok will happily oblige, using profanity and colorful language you won't hear. chatgpt.
But as Grok it exists today Hedges Political matters and will not be crossed fixed boundaries. actually, a research Groke has been seen to lean to the political left on issues such as transgender rights, diversity programs and inequality.
Musk blamed Grok's training data – public webpages – and this behavior commitment “To move the GROC closer to the politically neutral.”
“Unfortunately, the Internet (as it is trained), has become a wake-up call,” he said said In a post dated December 2023. “Grok will get better. This is just beta.”
Musk and many of his allies, including President-elect Donald Trump's crypto and AI 'czar' David Sachs, have accused the AI chatbot of Censoring conservative views. There are sacks Single out OpenAI's ChatGPT is especially “programmed to be awake” and untruthful about politically sensitive topics.