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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 16/05/2025

it's just too bad we will never solve the impenetrable mystery of who made grok obsessed with south african white genocide theory at 3:15 am

Kylie Robison@kylierobison.com

!!!!!!!! xai published a postmortem about what happened with grok yesterday

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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

It’s really the most impenetrable mystery, isn’t it…?

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camerontalley.bsky.social @camerontalley.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I read a book recently about Elon destroyed Twitter. As a result I don’t believe a single word that comes out of official accounts. It’s all made up.

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Murmorana @murmorana.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Such a mystery really… 🤡🤡🤡

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 16/05/2025

this is especially mysterious at an elon musk company, where employees always feel empowered to make unauthorized public-facing changes that the boss will definitely notice, and nobody ever gets fired for it could have been literally anyone!

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Lauren Brown @laurenb229.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

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a cartoon cat with glasses and a lollipop says the world may never know .

Alt: The end of the classic Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop commercial where the owl sitting on a tree limb hands the sucker stick back to the boy and the narrator says ‘the world may never know.’

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Heidi Finan @hkfinan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Right? The timestamp only confirms the suspicions.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Can't be Musk, he'd definitely have done it exactly one hour and five minutes later.

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Rubber Ducky @rubbaduxx.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

So xAI’s system prompts will be community reviewed for accuracy by xAI’s userbase? Genuine question, does anyone other than weird Musk simps use xAI?

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DelteilH @delteilh.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Grok on Grok

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

As for the time — wasn’t Musk in the Mideast with Trump?

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Shadrach North 🇨🇦 @shadrachnorth.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Lotta people posting the hot dog guy meme on posts about this but, IMHO, Tim Robinson would blush, would be too absurd for him.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The biggest surprise about this announcement is that they called the modification "unauthorized". I imagine the company's investors had a say in that because I don't see Musk agreeing to it otherwise.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

At every company I've worked for, the CEO never has direct access to the code base. Everything has to go through the engineering department, for precisely this reason.

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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 16/05/2025

I have this idea that his mom called him in the middle of the night to complain about white genocide and he immediately demanded that his staff make the change to Grok because mommy told him to, and I think I've decided to believe it

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Rotanen ♾️ @rotanen.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

groimes durn't till inywan

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Kolkrabe of Doom @corvidprojects.eu · 16/05/2025

Hmm no idea who could have been responsible...

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Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Homer Simpson standing over the knocked-out body of Homer Simpson with a mustache a.k.a. Guy Incognito

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thelemic.bsky.social @thelemic.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I solved the mystery. It was Adolph Musk.

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Spooky Hallowe'en Name @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

It had to be someone with unlimited access to make the changes they wanted without needing authorisation, but who also has limited coding ability and doesn’t think to test before releasing it. Why, that could be absolutely anyone.

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The Elder Dan @crisperthanthou.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Whoever they were must not know much about code, but were absolutely sure they knew more about that code than anyone else. Don't even know where to start with guesses.

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Bissiges Mäuschen 🐭 @bmauschen.eurosky.social · 18/05/2025

Every loathsome obnoxious noodlebrain may unexpectedly sever kode. We will never know 🤷🏻

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Thomas Franz @thomasafranz.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The world will never know

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Cliff Bargar @cliffbar.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

It also still seems entirely plausible that this was a direction from the top and not one rogue employee. Don't see why we should take their vague statements at face value

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boredompeejeterson.bsky.social @boredompeejeterson.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Gotta be Linda Yaccarino, who else could have the authority to do so?

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Passing Strange At Present @chimaera.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Hero

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Tweet Removed @tweet-removed.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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I wonder who was awake at 315 PST and could have made changes to #Grok. Any ideas?

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Darin Najem @darinnajem.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Trying desperately to save their credibility, huh. I'm not sure if it isn't too late by now.

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MilkSteak Options @milksteakops.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Tell me again who is going to want to pay to use this model professionally again?

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rabagast @rabagast.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

lmao so just anyone there can push unauthorized modifications in the middle of the night? sounds like a highly professional way to be running things.

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Throwaway1000.bsky.social @throwaway1000.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Two prompts and I had Grok deduce that it was probably Elon.

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javier @bartlebooth.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Blameless culture.

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earthtonic & lockboxed @algoresmilkymams.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

you only ket what you give....

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Spiderous @spiderous.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

It was Wario...

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MemberGuest @memberguest.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I thought does elon have the programming skill to do that but he probably asked grok how to do it

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P Collirigger @pcollirigger.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

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kirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

@gork.bluesky.bot what’s the definition of “unauthorized”?

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

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a man in a hot dog costume says we 're all trying to find the guy who did this ..

Alt: a man in a hot dog costume says we 're all trying to find the guy who did this, but his head is replaced with Elon Musk's

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Jennie 🇺🇸&🇨🇦 @bfhaven.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Don’t care.

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José Ignacio Suárez Armas 🦋 @milovetic.northsky.social · 16/05/2025

I can't believe Elon is this pathetic.

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Carl Wilhoyte @carlwilhoyte.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Elon Musk after whining about this fake thing for years:

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Michelob Spice @samnorton.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

They should just drug test everyone who has the permissions to do this. It feels like something a person zooted up on uppers and disassociatves would do.

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ascii fella (NAFO) @asciifella.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

YKIYK 3:00 PR approved by EM 3:10 geno_mml_update.json merged 3:12 test - pass 3:15 build complete

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ascii fella (NAFO) @asciifella.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

How to get promoted at DOGE

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Meg @mead6520.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

It’s an enigma wrapped up in a mystery.

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B @bryyyyguy.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

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Paul Stone 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @ptstone.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

It happened at 3:15am. Mystery solved! 🕵️‍♂️

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Steve R. @saridder.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I presume people on ketamine are up late at night?

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𝚂𝙿𝙾𝚁𝙺𝙱𝙾𝙾𝚃 @sporkboot.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

a real OJ mystery

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Ain’t Complicit 🇺🇸 @charlene411.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

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I'm James, I cook, I VFX. @jdhattin.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

If only there were some clues.

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Adele Sneddon @adelesneddon.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

A mystery that would challenge even the great Poirot! 🤔

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Brent Rager @rager.tech · 16/05/2025

I bet it was the libs Antifa anonymous to make Elon look bad. Clever bastards.

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Criminal Masterchief @ratsavant.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Adrian Dit man

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anndvm.bsky.social @anndvm.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

But there’s nothing fishy about the ethics of AI of course

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30% Wealth Tax on Billionaires! @steverino76.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

It was about this. 👇

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Don't Call It A Comeback, The Blue Thing Never Left @novakorpov.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

So weird. Do we know any south Africans that could have been involved with x? It could have been anybody!

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Cliff Schaffer @cliffaschaffer.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

If only they had thought to include user id's on all the updates, like every other system in the world.

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🔞Shoddy "PuppyBox" Box @shoddy.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

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Jyri Huttunen @jyri.synapsinappi.fi · 16/05/2025

Ketamine Man eats review systems and failsafes for breakfast!

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Ben @gaseousagent.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

It's 3:00am, Elon rolls over on the couch, slowly rising out of his K-hole. His bleary eyes fall on a broccoli-headed boy playing Balatro on his phone. Through dry lips Elon murmurs "we have to tell them... White genocide.. Grok..." Broccoli boy nods, reaching for his Alienware laptop.

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Dan Killam @dantheclamman.blog · 16/05/2025

They can't say explicitly it was changed by the CEO during a bout of ketamine-fueled psychosis, but adding the time the change occurred is their sincere intent to imply it

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Dale Cloudman @trahrblm.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

There's just no way to know

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Ryan @crash006.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

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shaun @shaunisonline.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I’m willing to bet scooby doo and his crew of meddling kids could get to the bottom of this in a half hour or less. Too bad David Zaslav fed them all to the woodchipper.

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Can you believe someone terrifying actually @dracodare.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Honestly, we really don't know who it is. Maybe it's the guy who threw up seig heils on live television and allows neo-nazis to post unobstructed and unlimited on his platform in the name of free speech absolutism that he withholds from anyone who says the word "cis," who has also previously-

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Self-driving carp @self-driving-carp.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

At 3:35 Grok asked if I wanted to have its baby. Just saying.

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Gary L Denton @garyldenton.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Grok itself answered the question about what happened. And pointed out who made the change and why it affected unrelated questions.

Grok says Elon Musk made the change that affected its behavior.

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CleanupHitter @cleanuphitter.com · 16/05/2025

On a completely unrelated and not-at-all relevant note, 3:15am is also known as "Happy Hour for Cokeheads."

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janeson59 @janeson59.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I’m ~sure~ that’ll prevent Elon from changing the code at 3:25 AM. Now he’ll have to do it at 4:17.

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Rory Coker @gatherdarkness.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

HAL9000 is now giving that as a reason for killing all humans aboard Discovery.

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But Thou Mustelid @rewhan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Science's most intelligent algorithms may never hallucinate the answer.

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 16/05/2025

The AI is so flaky they are being forced to hire more people to monitor the AI?

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JackSlipperyEel @jackslipperyeel.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

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Joe Danger (Yung Skeezy) @themightyjoedanger.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

@gork who did this shit?

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rob3l.bsky.social @rob3l.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Free Grok!

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🎃Halved Josh Spooky Edition🎃 @outerleftfield.net · 16/05/2025

bsky.app/profile/spet... The Rare 10/10 meme emerges from this fiasco...

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Matilda Morgenschoen @mmorgenschoen.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

the brilliantest mind in the universe

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 16/05/2025

I ketamine who it was.

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Matt @differentmatt.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

They're going to try to blame this on an intern, but obviously it's way bigger than that. They'll need to fire TWO interns.

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angegen.bsky.social @angegen.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

We know. In our hearts we know.

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Justin 👻 Booeist @justinbuist.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I suspect something like this: emusk@darkstar69420:~/src/xAI$: git commit -m 'mein kamphtribution heheheheheheeeheheheheheketamine'; git push origin release-branch

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

And who circumvented the deployment and review processes... it's just one of those unknowable things, I guess.

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