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Grok might be ripping OpenAI’s base code
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😱 Elon Musk's Grok faces early controversy!
🎄 AI gifting guide for a very merry Christmas!
🚀 New business guidance to boost skills and unlock the benefits of AI.
📚 6 best books on artificial intelligence.
🤖 ChatGPT Prompt Of The Day: Generate ideas for a lead magnet that’ll resonate with your audience
😱 Elon Musk's Grok Faces Early Controversy!

It has been a week since Elon Musk's AI creation, Grok, was made available to the public.
At first, people were excited about its impressive capabilities. However, there are now controversies surrounding the bot's training methods, which have caused intrigue and skepticism among users.
The drama began when Grok refused to respond to a user's query, citing OpenAI's use case policy. The user, Jax Winterbourne, suspected that xAI might be “ripping OpenAI’s code base.”
Uhhh. Tell me that Grok is literally just ripping OpenAI's code base lol. This is what happened when I tried to get it to modify some malware for a red team engagement. Huge if true. #GrokX
— Jax Winterbourne (@JaxWinterbourne)
4:16 AM • Dec 9, 2023
This led to a playful exchange between Musk and ChatGPT. ChatGPT kicked off with a "We have a lot in common" comment, prompting Musk to humorously accuse ChatGPT of data scraping.
To salvage the situation, xAI's co-founder, Igor Babuschkin, clarified that Grok relies on web data. He revealed that due to the abundance of ChatGPT outputs on the internet, Grok encountered overlap issues.
Importantly, Babuschkin assured users that Grok wasn't trained with OpenAI code and promised to fix the issue in the upcoming update.
The issue here is that the web is full of ChatGPT outputs, so we accidentally picked up some of them when we trained Grok on a large amount of web data. This was a huge surprise to us when we first noticed it. For what it’s worth, the issue is very rare and now that we’re aware… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Igor Babuschkin (@ibab_ml)
6:45 PM • Dec 9, 2023
But hey, It's strange for a Chatbot to have this sort of error, but what do we know? 🤷♂️
If you're curious and want to see for yourself, you can look at the prompt that triggered the message.
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🎄 AI Gifting Guide For A Very Merry Christmas!
It's that time of the year again - the season of giving! And guess what? OpenAI has a special gift waiting just for you - SantaGPT!
Are you having a hard time finding the perfect gifts to make this Christmas a memorable one? Worry not, because SantaGPT is here to make your gift-giving experience a breeze!
prepare for the holidays by meeting our new SantaGPT!
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12:08 AM • Dec 2, 2023
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🧱 Around The AI Block
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📚 6 best books on artificial intelligence.
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🤖 ChatGPT Prompt Of The Day: Generate ideas for a lead magnet that’ll resonate with your audience
A well-targeted lead magnet attracts individuals who are genuinely interested in your products or services.
This means you're more likely to capture high-quality leads with a higher potential to convert into customers.
Here’s a ChatGPT prompt to generate ideas for a lead magnet that’ll resonate with your audience.
You are a lead generation expert and I am a content creator. Please give me a list of 10 lead magnet ideas that would appeal to my audience and encourage them to opt into my email list. Take the following into account:
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