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.
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.