{"id":31037,"date":"2024-05-17T17:52:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T08:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=31037"},"modified":"2024-05-17T17:52:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T08:52:19","slug":"yokotaro-accidentally-breaks-grok-ai-with-one-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/yokotaro-accidentally-breaks-grok-ai-with-one-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Yokotaro accidentally breaks Grok AI with one question\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yokotaro recently shared an interaction with the artificial intelligence chatbot Grok on his personal X account, and it&#8217;s giving people serious NieR:Automata flashbacks. For unknown reasons, what seems to be the very first thing Yokotaro asked the chatbot results in it rambling like a broken record.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">Grok \u306b\u8a71\u3057\u304b\u3051\u3066\u307f\u305f\u3093\u3060\u3051\u3069\u3001\u541b\u306f\u3061\u3087\u3063\u3068\u4f11\u3093\u3060\u307b\u3046\u304c\u3044\u3044\u3093\u3058\u3083\u306a\u3044\u304b\u306a\u2026\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C0mekBuT9G\">pic.twitter.com\/C0mekBuT9G<\/a><\/p>&mdash; yokotaro (@yokotaro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yokotaro\/status\/1791360279575761362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><br><strong>Post translation: <\/strong><em>I tried talking to Grok, but I think it should have a bit of a rest&#8230;.\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the screenshot, Yokotaro can be seen asking the chatbot a very simple, \u201cGrok, what can you do?\u201d To this, Grok responds with a rather wordy response, the first paragraph being a generic explanation about how Grok can respond to user requests and answers questions. 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