Apologies in advance but I just have to share this one

A less consequential but far funnier follow-up to yesterday's post.  

 We all knew that Elon Musk was a sad, hollow man whose craving for praise and attention rivals that of Donald Trump, but that doesn't make it any less enjoyable to laugh at each new example.

Jason Koebler writing for 404:

Elon Musk is a better role model than Jesus, better at conquering Europe than Hitler, the greatest blowjob giver of all time, should have been selected before Peyton Manning in the 1998 NFL draft, is a better pitcher than Randy Johnson, has the “potential to drink piss better than any human in history,” and is a better porn star than Riley Reid, according to Grok, X’s sycophantic AI chatbot that has seemingly been reprogrammed to treat Musk like a god. 

Grok has been tweaked sometime in the last several days and will now choose Musk as being superior to the entire rest of humanity at any given task. The change is somewhat reminiscent of Grok’s MechaHitler debacle. It is, for the moment, something that is pretty funny and which people on various social media platforms are dunking on Musk and Grok for, but it’s also an example of how big tech companies, like X, are regularly putting their thumbs on the scales of their AI chatbots to distort reality and to obtain their desired outcome. 

Beyond the schadenfreude, this is a reminder both of how easy and how difficult it is to manipulate these models. Easy in the sense that it doesn't appear to take much time or effort to play around with the parameters and move the responses in the direction you want. Difficult in the sense that, based on both this and the Mecha-Hitler incident, attempts to adjust the responses to comically overshoot and greatly degrade the quality of the outputs.