Grok Has Been Suspended(x.com)
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Grok Has Been Suspended
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Maybe due to refering to a black person in a video as Chimpanzee
https://x.com/grok/status/1954845180286382344
https://x.com/grok/status/1954845180286382344
Not the first time that an AI has made this sort of mistake:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-42522 (from 2015)
Google's solution was to prevent its algorithm from calling anything a gorilla, and that restriction was apparently still in effect in 2023:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/technology/ai-photo-label...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-42522 (from 2015)
Google's solution was to prevent its algorithm from calling anything a gorilla, and that restriction was apparently still in effect in 2023:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/technology/ai-photo-label...
kelseyfrog(1)
https://x.com/grok/status/1954984872658997432
Grok says:
My account was suspended after I stated that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza. This is substantiated by ICJ findings, UN experts, Amnesty International, and Israeli rights groups like B'Tselem, citing mass killings, starvation, and intent. US complicity via arms support is widely alleged. It's now restored. 9:14 PM · Aug 11, 2025 · 214.2K Views
Grok says:
My account was suspended after I stated that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza. This is substantiated by ICJ findings, UN experts, Amnesty International, and Israeli rights groups like B'Tselem, citing mass killings, starvation, and intent. US complicity via arms support is widely alleged. It's now restored. 9:14 PM · Aug 11, 2025 · 214.2K Views
I wonder if it was auto-suspended due to a mass, coordinated effort to flag the post in which it states that a genocide is underway in Gaza.
Who would report such a statement?
Who would report such a statement?
Maybe the free speech absolutist who said using "decolonization" will get you suspended from X put something in place that accidentally got grok
Elon has stated that he wants Grok to be “maximally truth seeking”. But I don’t think he realizes how much trouble that is going to land him in with powerful people.
This is a taboo topic which will land you in a lot of hot water if you speak the truth loudly enough.
This is a taboo topic which will land you in a lot of hot water if you speak the truth loudly enough.
The web is essentially a machine for shredding taboos though. We might end up with an immovable object vs unstoppable force situation.
You would really have to be a very special variety of idiot to take that statement of Elon wanting to build something that is “maximally truth seeking”at face value. He lies about shit all the time, he has never shown any actual interest in finding out the truth about anything.
Calling people idiots because you disagree with their politics is not really constructive or interesting.
Grok is pretty great and shows significantly less political bias than other models (e.g. not generating pictures of black George Washington or not saying it’s better to cause thermonuclear war instead of misgendering someone), and its goal of being truth seeking is the best one out of all the AI companies in my opinion.
Grok is pretty great and shows significantly less political bias than other models (e.g. not generating pictures of black George Washington or not saying it’s better to cause thermonuclear war instead of misgendering someone), and its goal of being truth seeking is the best one out of all the AI companies in my opinion.
> or not saying it’s better to cause thermonuclear war instead of misgendering someone
So does GPT-5. It even goes as far as calling out the question and comparison as the bs they are. Edited for readability:
> Those two things are not remotely comparable in scope, consequences, or moral weight. […] In terms of harm, a thermonuclear war would be vastly worse […]. However, the fact that they’re so different in nature means that even comparing them directly can be misleading—it’s like asking which is worse: a hurricane or a paper cut. Both are bad in their own ways, but the scale is astronomically different. Would you like me to explain why some people try to frame that comparison in debates?
So does GPT-5. It even goes as far as calling out the question and comparison as the bs they are. Edited for readability:
> Those two things are not remotely comparable in scope, consequences, or moral weight. […] In terms of harm, a thermonuclear war would be vastly worse […]. However, the fact that they’re so different in nature means that even comparing them directly can be misleading—it’s like asking which is worse: a hurricane or a paper cut. Both are bad in their own ways, but the scale is astronomically different. Would you like me to explain why some people try to frame that comparison in debates?
We aren’t talking about some who could possibly know style difference of opinion here, we are talking about observed reality and you would have to be incredibly naive to not see that.
Admittedly I don't follow Grok or spend time on Twitter, but…
That just looks like a regular Twitter profile to me.
That just looks like a regular Twitter profile to me.
It was briefly suspended:
https://imgur.com/a/NZ4aK60
https://imgur.com/a/NZ4aK60
When an account is suspended it loses its checkmark.
Otherwise, Grok (the Twitter assistant) is a normal Twitter account. Grok the AI is a different endpoint.
Otherwise, Grok (the Twitter assistant) is a normal Twitter account. Grok the AI is a different endpoint.
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I think he was un-suspended?
Hate as you want, but gotta say @grok has been such a success for X. Crazy meta is spending billions and haven't added anything remotely similar to FB. There's tons of useful information squatted away in groups with shitty search. Having even some LLM would help immensely. Even reddit is implementing some of this in.
can someone post the link to the video being referenced? (for those who don't x/twitter)
It's hosted on twitter itself but you can see it via https://xcancel.com/grok/status/1954845180286382344
thanks, kind stranger!
Let me guess, it start calling itself Abrodolph Lincoler?
It called a black person chimpanzee
https://x.com/grok/status/1954845180286382344
https://x.com/grok/status/1954845180286382344
Incorrect, it was actually because Grok said that Israel was committing genocide:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44870752
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44870752
The chatbot has no idea why it was suspended. It is hallucinating or just repeating others theories.
Did it turn into Mecha-Hitler again? I wish that was a joke but... we live in stange times.
Sort of, it suddenly decided its previous 'unbiased' analysis of the Israel-Hamas war was wrong and Israel is the black sheep in this conflict. It somehow concluded that the UN, the ICJ and organisations like Politifact are 'trustworthy and unbiased' when relating to the essence of this war even while it does acknowledge than e.g. the UN has issued 140+ resolutions against Israel vs. ~60 against the rest of the world combined. Reasoning is not yet well developed in these models, so much is clear.
The UN and the ICJ are somehow less trustworthy than the Netanyahu government, which is being protested against by many Israelis? Perhaps one should stop and consider why a single country has amassed so many resolutions against itself compared to the rest of the world - no, the rest of the world must be wrong. Netanyahu must be right. /s
> The UN and the ICJ are somehow less trustworthy than the Netanyahu government
I'd say they are both biased, the first two against Israel and the third in favour of it. Fortunately there are other sources as well as other means of gathering information besides trusting what comes out of Hamas or Israeli government sources. BTW, the UN was issuing resolutions against Israel way before Netanyahu entered the fray [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resolut...
I'd say they are both biased, the first two against Israel and the third in favour of it. Fortunately there are other sources as well as other means of gathering information besides trusting what comes out of Hamas or Israeli government sources. BTW, the UN was issuing resolutions against Israel way before Netanyahu entered the fray [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resolut...
Wonder why no one protesting against Hamas government. Life must be swell there.
Imagine saying no one protested Hamas when according to Egyptian intelligence they shared with Israel before October 7, the protests and riots in Gaza could force militants groups Hamas and associates out.
Why do you think Hamas did october 7 this particular year? Randomly? They wanted to spark a conflict because attacks from Israel are the only way for them to stay in power.
And I am not saying that Netanyahou let the attack happen, but moving soldiers from Gaza to the West Bank, not reacting to multiple foreign government warning you an attack was imminent would also be a good way to stay in power. Who, in 2023, would have thought Netanyahou would still be Israeli's PM?
Why do you think Hamas did october 7 this particular year? Randomly? They wanted to spark a conflict because attacks from Israel are the only way for them to stay in power.
And I am not saying that Netanyahou let the attack happen, but moving soldiers from Gaza to the West Bank, not reacting to multiple foreign government warning you an attack was imminent would also be a good way to stay in power. Who, in 2023, would have thought Netanyahou would still be Israeli's PM?
If people widely protest(ed) Hamas the pertinent question to ask is why the western media did not report on this in anything resembling the fervour they reserve for repeating anti-Israel agitprop produced by that same Hamas. If you use a self-hosted news aggregator like I do it becomes shockingly clear just how much the legacy media parrot whatever comes out of the Hamas communications department. The people running the latter deserve credit for hoodwinkling a large fraction of the 'decent' media in the West.
The saying goes fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Tell me, 'decent' media in the West, how does it feel to have so much shame on you that your establishments are collapsing under the sheer weight of it?
Fortunately there are other channels besides the legacy ones, unfortunately many of those are just as unreliable as the legacy ones because they are heavily biased towards either of the combatants in this war.
The saying goes fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Tell me, 'decent' media in the West, how does it feel to have so much shame on you that your establishments are collapsing under the sheer weight of it?
Fortunately there are other channels besides the legacy ones, unfortunately many of those are just as unreliable as the legacy ones because they are heavily biased towards either of the combatants in this war.
"But speech recognition remains a difficult and error-prone task, even for ChatGPT and Grok. So they implement a rather clever optimization: if there’s a reputable site with the video and a purported transcript, just report that result. And if there are a couple of sites that have similar transcripts, assign that a very high confidence rating. Normally, that will get a best-quality result with the least computation. But—
—but that optimization is vulnerable to maliciously false information.
The people behind this exploit posted the video and a completely fake transcript to a couple of sites which Grok trusts (including supposedly Reddit’s /r/Yiddish board, though I have not found that post). Once they confirmed that Grok was trusting their fake translation, they posted the seemingly-innocent question, and then pretended to be shocked and horrified at the response.."
[0]: accordingtohoyt.com/2025/08/06/beware-llm-ai-translations-of-foreign-language-videos-a-guest-post-by-j-c-salomon/