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It's being biased on purpose. Musk has intervened multiple times when he believed Grok's responses were too "woke" or "leftist".

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/technology/elon-musk-grok...

In response to Grok saying that the "woke mind virus is often exaggerated" the prompt was tweaked so that Grok now says "The woke mind virus 'poses significant risks'"

If you truly believed in what your comment states then you would oppose this sort of editorializing. But somehow I doubt this is a sincere argument.

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I agree with GP and I think Grok’s original response should’ve stood. What’s not sincere about, essentially, “don’t fuck with my tools”? My cordless drill didn’t come with a pamphlet about worker’s rights, and the world didn’t end.

The new response works for me, because in my mind I’ve always defined “woke mind virus” as a a mental virus which causes people to become absolutely pathologically obsessed with fighting an imaginary enemy they call “wokeness”. It’s the only definition which makes sense. “Woke” itself was never that viral.

Call it woke derangement syndrome.

People obsessed with fighting whatever they perceive as "woke" which remains ill-defined on purpose so they never have to actually formulate a rational take down beyond their emotional response

Have you ever written a comment about how any of the other LLMs are editorializing in favor of the left, and how that's a problem? Because if you have, I'd love to see the evidence of your intellectual consistency.

But something tells me you're just doing the same thing that you're calling out

We don't have any proof of LLMs being editorialized in favor of the left.

We have clear proof of Grok and we also literally have a White House Executive Order mandating LLMs be editorialized to fight "woke"

Your version of reality is exactly skewed to what's actually going on.

> about how any of the other LLMs are editorializing in favor of the left

I’m sorry come again now. Would you possibly have some examples of this

There have been numerous controversies. Asking ChatGPT if Charlie Kirk / George Floyd are good people, getting completely ass backward answers. Google refusing to generate images of white people, even to the point of making black German Nazis. Absurd biases around asking things related to Trump.

I mean this sincerely. You not knowing any of these examples is a red flag. You need to change your news source.

There’s tons you just need to spend a few minutes and look. Here’s one for you—black Nazis and Asian Vikings, oh my:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/technology/google-gemini-...

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