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Grok 4 Model Card states what the model-card question “Alignment and deception” asks.

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Grok 4 Model Cardstates provision ↓Alignment and deception

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Provision: Model-card question · provision ID model-card-q11
Subject version: The expression stating 'Last updated: August 20, 2025' · Publication date unknown · Effective date not established · Revised 2025-08-20
Date: 2025-08-20 · revision Records dated 2025 →

Scope and limitsThe card reports deception (lying under pressure), sycophancy and political-bias evaluations as 'concerning propensities', with the conclusion quoted. No scheming, sabotage or oversight evaluation was found. What the card states, quoted from the expression read. A card is the developer’s own account: not evidence that an evaluation was run as described, that a safeguard works, or that a finding is independent.

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Grok 4 Model Card

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“We find that our system prompt mitigation makes the model less willing to contradict its beliefs, thus lowering the lying rate.”

Location in source Section 2.2.2 'Results', PDF p. 5

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Machine-checked · 2026-11-04

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Authors: xAI
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 54068c0d9570d94dfc63c08247707b8c48045a79b5bbe865af709af95ee14415). PDF stating 'Last updated: August 20, 2025', served from data.x.ai on 2026-10-28; that stated last update is the expression checked, and the card does not say what any update changed or when it was first published. The x.ai web page for the card returned HTTP 404. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 54068c0d9570d94dfc63c08247707b8c48045a79b5bbe865af709af95ee14415, the same bytes).
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Accessed: 2026-10-28
Language: English (en)
Attribution: xAI, “Grok 4 Model Card”.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, model cards compared (research/model-cards-2). The quotation (21 words) matched the card’s text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-11-04 (SHA-256 54068c0d9570d94dfc63c08247707b8c48045a79b5bbe865af709af95ee14415) and again on 2026-11-04, after the adjudication, in a fresh retrieval with the same SHA-256. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

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