This kind of conditioning has to be damaging to the model’s reasoning.

Consider how research worked in the Stalinist Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Scientists had to be mindful of topics where they needed to either avoid it completely or explicitly adapt it to the leader’s ideology.

Grok is a digital version of the same thing.

You can’t put a gun to someone’s head, order them to be creative, and also expect good results.

The counter to this are the open weight models that come from China at the moment.

All are great at reasoning but also ideologically aligned.