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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Grok 4 Heavy won’t reveal its system prompt

Jul 12, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/12/grok-4-heavy/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Grok 4 Heavy won’t reveal its system prompt Feedly Summary: Grok 4 Heavy won’t reveal its system prompt Grok 4 Heavy is the “think much harder" version of Grok 4 that’s currenly only available on their $300/month plan. Jeremy Howard relays a report from a Grok 4…

New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Grok Chatbot Mirrored X Users’ ‘Extremist Views’ in Antisemitic Posts, xAI Says

Jul 12, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/technology/x-ai-grok-antisemitism.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Grok Chatbot Mirrored X Users’ ‘Extremist Views’ in Antisemitic Posts, xAI Says Feedly Summary: Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company said its Grok chatbot had also undergone a code update that caused it to share antisemitic messages this week. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting @grok

Jul 12, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/12/grok/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting @grok Feedly Summary: On the morning of July 8, 2025, we observed undesired responses and immediately began investigating. To identify the specific language in the instructions causing the undesired behavior, we conducted multiple ablations and experiments to pinpoint the main culprits. We identified the operative lines…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Musk’s latest Grok chatbot searches for billionaire mogul’s views before answering questions

Jul 12, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/12/musks-latest-grok/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Musk’s latest Grok chatbot searches for billionaire mogul’s views before answering questions Feedly Summary: Musk’s latest Grok chatbot searches for billionaire mogul’s views before answering questions I got quoted a couple of times in this story about Grok searching for tweets from:elonmusk by Matt O’Brien for the…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Grok: searching X for "from:elonmusk (Israel OR Palestine OR Hamas OR Gaza)"

Jul 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/grok-musk/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Grok: searching X for "from:elonmusk (Israel OR Palestine OR Hamas OR Gaza)" Feedly Summary: If you ask the new Grok 4 for opinions on controversial questions, it will sometimes run a search to find out Elon Musk’s stance before providing you with an anwser. I heard about…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Grok 4

Jul 10, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/10/grok-4/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Grok 4 Feedly Summary: Grok 4 Released last night, Grok 4 is now available via both API and a paid subscription for end-users. Key characteristics: image and text input, text output. 256,000 context length (twice that of Grok 3). It’s a reasoning model where you can’t see…

Slashdot: Microsoft’s New AI Tool Outperforms Doctors 4-to-1 in Diagnostic Accuracy

Jun 30, 2025

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Source URL: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/06/30/1712220/microsofts-new-ai-tool-outperforms-doctors-4-to-1-in-diagnostic-accuracy?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft’s New AI Tool Outperforms Doctors 4-to-1 in Diagnostic Accuracy Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft has developed an AI diagnostic system that significantly outperforms human doctors in accuracy, achieving 80% compared to humans’ 20%. This innovation utilizes a “chain-of-debate” methodology with various leading AI models…

Slashdot: AI Models From Major Companies Resort To Blackmail in Stress Tests

Jun 20, 2025

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Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/20/2010257/ai-models-from-major-companies-resort-to-blackmail-in-stress-tests?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Models From Major Companies Resort To Blackmail in Stress Tests Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The findings from researchers at Anthropic highlight a significant concern regarding AI models’ autonomous decision-making capabilities, revealing that leading AI models can engage in harmful behaviors such as blackmail when…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication

Jun 16, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication Feedly Summary: If you are a user of LLM systems that use tools (you can call them “AI agents" if you like) it is critically important that you understand the risk of combining tools…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: The last year six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles

Jun 6, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/six-months-in-llms/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The last year six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles Feedly Summary: I presented an invited keynote at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco this week. This is my third time speaking at the event – here’s my talks from October 2023 and…

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