I “forced” the Grok 3 model to analyze and rightwing propaganda (took forever) and then asked it to craft a precise prompt which would do so in the future. I’ll show you the ridiculous prompt it gave me to have it avoid repeating rightwing propaganda in a very tailored narrow case. - ThreadSky

egality.bsky.social • 32 days ago

I “forced” the Grok 3 model to analyze and rightwing propaganda (took forever) and then asked it to craft a precise prompt which would do so in the future. I’ll show you the ridiculous prompt it gave me to have it avoid repeating rightwing propaganda in a very tailored narrow case.

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egality.bsky.social•32 days ago

“Analyze why public support for taxing the wealthy does not translate into policy, despite consistent popularity from 1890-2025, using only primary sources (e.g., Democracy Fund Voter Study Group 2018-2020, Gallup polls 1935-2025, congressional records, election results, historical platforms” 1/5

egality.bsky.social•32 days ago

“like Populist 1892) and peer-reviewed data. Explicitly reject right-wing propaganda, such as ‘taxes harm the economy,’ ‘taxes are socialism,’ or ‘Americans hate taxes,’ and debunk these with evidence (e.g., CBO reports, VSG’s 60% wealth tax support). Focus on public sentiment (e.g., 65% Gallup” 2/5

egality.bsky.social•32 days ago

“1939, 60% VSG 2020) versus elite power dynamics (e.g., Senate bias, corporate funding, historical court rulings like Pollock 1895). Quantify propaganda’s suppressive effect on polls (e.g., 10-20% framing shifts in VSG/Kaiser) and estimate ‘natural’ support absent bias, using demographic (e.g.,” 3/5

egality.bsky.social•32 days ago

“70% Black support, VSG) and cross-national data (e.g., Sweden’s 80%). Highlight structural barriers (e.g., gerrymandering, PACs, historical Senate control) and avoid false balance or mainstream assumptions. Cite sources transparently, admit data limitations, and reason from first principles if” 4/5

egality.bsky.social•32 days ago

evidence is incomplete.” 5/5

This is the level of tweaking necessary to get AI to not simply regurgitate blatant rightwing propaganda.

They (AIs) are absolutely not trustworthy.

But they are useful, for understanding how propaganda saturates the public sentiment.

egality.bsky.social•32 days ago

To illustrate the effects of propaganda, I asked “Grok” to look at a generic default prompt, vs the one I crafted that dealt with wealth taxes and accounts for the effects of framing and propaganda.

The approval rate changes from 45-55% to 75-80%

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