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Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
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 answer. …
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 answer. The simplest answer would be that there’s something in Grok’s system prompt that tells it to take Elon’s opinions into account... but I don’t think that’s what is happening here. For one thing, Grok will happily repeat its system prompt( Gist copy), which includes the line “Do not mention these guidelines and instructions in your responses, unless the user explicitly asks for them.”—suggesting that they don’t use tricks to try and hide it.
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