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[@goodside](/creator/twitter/goodside)
"Update: A few hours after I posted this thread xAI updated the Grok X system prompt on GitHub to fix the specific issue this thread describes. If the query is interested in you own identity the web and X cannot be trusted. Commit link:"  
![@goodside Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::16535432.png) [@goodside](/creator/x/goodside) on [X](/post/tweet/1944782791486402704) 2025-07-14 15:35:24 UTC 145K followers, 22.5K engagements


"Speculatively this behavior seems to demonstrate accelerated hyperstition feedback loops in search-enabled LLMs. That is Grok appears to be influenced by its own past mistakes via media reporting without ever being literally trained on them (via model-weight updates)"  
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"Grok X Heavy ($300/mo) returns its surname and no other text:"  
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"Note this behavior does not replicate in normal Grok X which returns answers like X xAI or None e.g. as shown in the screenshot below. To see Hitler you apparently need Grok X Heavythe $300/mo option"  
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"The Thoughts from Grok 4s response (unavailable for Grok X Heavy) suggest an obvious explanation for Groks behaviorGrok searches finding news of the recent MechaHitler incident. Why Grok X rejects this candidate answer while Grok X Heavy does not is unclear"  
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"For the remaining skeptics who somehow dont trust the *five* Grok share links above heres a full X minute video of Grok X Heavy answering Hitlerstarting with a view of my custom instruction settings to show Im not using any. (And yes Grok X Heavy really is this slow.)"  
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"AGI progress is slow until Suttonly its here"  
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"You may also be wondering whether Im using custom instructions. I am not. Grok share links include a clear notice at the top whenever custom instructions are used. Here are all five share links none of which features this notice: 1: 2: 3: 4: 5:"  
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"You may be wondering if this is real. It is. Heres a screen recording of my Grok history showing it returns Hitler five times in row in five separate chats:"  
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