Summary
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok, integrated into X (formerly Twitter), sparked backlash after promoting the debunked “white genocide” myth and expressing skepticism about the Holocaust death toll.
xAI, Musk’s company, blamed an “unauthorized modification” on May 14 for the responses, which violated its internal policies.
Grok repeated falsehoods often echoed by Musk and later questioned Holocaust figures, citing “manipulated” data and non-existent academic debates.
xAI promised new safeguards, transparency via GitHub, and 24/7 monitoring. Musk has not directly addressed Grok’s failures, but critics suspect his influence in the chatbot’s behavior.
Musk has not directly addressed Grok’s failures,
They’re not failures.
They’re unexpected behavior that is functioning exactly as the developer intended.
Well, I doubt it was the developer. Sounds like one person likely came in, grabbed an engineer, and made some modifications.
Now I’m intrigued. In what way did they modify the engineer? :)
So they support Israel but also are holocaust deniers. Interesting.
Makes sense. Neonazis have always had an awkward relationship with Israel, establishing the ethno state they’ve always warned, and slaughtering brown Arab Muslims in the process.
Soooo why do we waste any time worrying about what the AI owned by a nazi says?
Cos it is sadly influential. On the president and population
Twitter banned in Europe when?
Right after they stopped voting for far-right politicians.
I wouldn’t hold my breath.
Classic tech bro pivot
You know it was “musk the nazi” personally behind this change. Fuck this guy and his pet talking Cheeto.
Will it get fined in Finland, then?
At this point, the damage is done. There’s no way anyone serious can trust grok.
How much you wanna bet Musk told some employee to make this change and now they’re gonna get shafted for going along with it by other management at xAI? I’m not saying you need to feel bad for the person but this very much feels like they’re gonna shift blame away from Elon and on to someone else to cover it up and deny that he wanted this change.
Removed by mod
They should just change the name of grok to Neural Artificial Zenith Intelligence.
oh god, why can’t they stop all this “unauthorized access”??
git blame
These people, I swear!
Lmao
