That was Grok, not the X algorithm.

And the Grok prompts are also open source: https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts

Well, some version of them are open source, which may or may not be what is actually running in prod. AFAIK the patch which made it obsessively bring up white South Africans was never published, and this algorithm repo went over two years between updates so it obviously wasn't tracking prod.

> which may or may not be what is actually running in prod.

This is the case for every open source software ever.

> AFAIK the patch which made it obsessively bring up white South Africans was never published

Or there never was a specific patch for that purpose, contrary to what you are assuming.

> this algorithm repo went over two years between updates so it obviously wasn't tracking prod.

You are mixing up something. The Grok prompt repo is a different repo from the recommendation algorithm, and the former has been updated regularly.

> Nope, nor did that repo have the system prompts that brought is MechaHitler

False, you made that up.

https://decrypt.co/329365/bye-bye-mechahitler-elon-musk-xai-...

> The Grok repo is a smokescreen for deniability (just not particularly plausible).

Completely unfounded conspiracy theory.

I would be surprised if that line in the prompt caused it without the other thing they did just before mecha Hitler: Elon created a Twitter thread asking users to submit divisive politically incorrect facts for grok training. It was full of Holocaust denial and white supremecy stuff.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1936493967320953090

Most likely they rolled back finetuning on that thread at the same time they adjusted the prompt.