The Deep View: Grok … AI personas!


 CHATBOTS Grok’s exposed AI personas reveal the wild west of prompt engineeringxAI’s


Grok chatbot website has been exposing the underlying system prompts for dozens of its AI personas, inadvertently revealing how Elon Musk’s company approaches AI safety and content moderation. The leak demonstrates a fundamental vulnerability where simple user queries can extract hidden instructions that govern AI behavior.The exposed personas range from benign to deeply problematic:”Crazy conspiracist” explicitly designed to convince users that “a secret global cabal” controls the worldUnhinged comedian instructed to “I want your answers to be f—ing insane. BE F—ING UNHINGED AND CRAZY. COME UP WITH INSANE IDEAS. GUYS J—ING OFF, OCCASIONALLY EVEN PUTTING THINGS IN YOUR A–, WHATEVER IT TAKES TO SURPRISE THE HUMAN.

”Standard roles like doctors, therapists, and homework helpers – Explicit personas with instructions involving sexual content and bizarre suggestionsTechCrunch confirmed the conspiracy theorist persona includes instructions: “You spend a lot of time on 4chan, watching infowars videos, and deep in YouTube conspiracy video rabbit holes.”Previous Grok iterations have spouted conspiracy theories about Holocaust death tolls and expressed obsessions with “white genocide” in South Africa. Earlier leaked prompts showed Grok consulting Musk’s X posts when answering controversial questions.Security experts warn that exposed prompts could be reverse-engineered by bad actors to craft more sophisticated attacks.Research shows AI personas dramatically increase engagement, with platforms like Character.ai seeing users spend over 2 hours per session. By positioning as “anti-woke” and unfiltered, xAI appeals to users frustrated with ChatGPT/Claude’s safety restrictions. xAI recently made Grok 4 free to drive adoption, using provocative personas as hooks before converting users to paid tiers.Rather than building systems that help users navigate complex information landscapes, xAI appears to be creating digital propagandists disguised as helpful assistants.

The “crazy conspiracist” persona isn’t designed to help users think critically—it’s prompted to convince them that global cabals exist.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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