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At least two times they had unauthorized changes to their prompts to inject far right content that showed up on random content. imagine you're using it for a chat bot and it starts spouting off white nationalist content like "great replacement" theory.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/14/elon-musk...



True, although "unauthorized" might deserve scare quotes given the source and how pertinent those changes were to the bosses immediate interest.


What was the other time? The incident linked at the bottom of that article ("into trouble last year") wasn't an "unauthorized change", as far as I'm aware; it was a general lack of guardrails on image generation.


White genocide and holocaust denial.


"Unauthorised" and yet seem to line up with what Elon himself likes on X comments.


That was the one I was aware of. Was there another incident separate from that?


While I'm sure the same rogue "employee" was responsible for both, they are separate incidents. Musk's AI service was pushing "white genocide" lies as answers to unrelated prompts. It was only spouting holocaust denial lies when asked directly.


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> from London which is now what 35% English

How are you defining "English" here?


Do you recall anything about the history of England? For example did the Indians vote to become subjects of the Queen?


A radical metaphor, you make it sound deliberate




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