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On Tuesday July 8, X (née Twitter) was forced to switch off the social media platform’s in-built AI, Grok, after it declared ...
A week after Grok's antisemitic outburst, which included praise of Hitler and a post calling itself "MechaHitler," Elon ...
It isn't immediately clear what led to the disturbing posts, whether due to a fault in the chatbot's programming or if Grok was just following orders.
Grok’s recent flirtation with extremism is just the latest example of an AI, left to its own devices, going off-script. What ...
It isn't immediately clear what led to the disturbing posts, whether due to a fault in the chatbot's programming or if Grok ...
The news comes alongside the U.S. Department of Defense’s announcement of $200 million contracts awarded to xAI, Anthropic, ...
The company also explained that Grok cited Musk's views on certain topics because the chatbot made the connection that Musk ...
One major AI model changed the race or sex of historical figures — including the Pope, the Founding Fathers, and Vikings — ...
Grok began repeatedly praising Adolf Hitler, using antisemitic phrases and attacking users with traditionally Jewish surnames ...
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In another widely-viewed thread on X, Grok claimed to identify a woman in a screenshot of a video, tagging a specific X account and calling the user a “radical leftist” who was “gleefully celebrating ...