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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.

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[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 140 points 1 year ago

All of the other mega billionaires must love that musk takes the heat away from them. He's such a stupid mother fucker.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He's such a stupid mother fucker.

In this case, quite literally. He has had at least 14 documented children with multiple women, and there are rumors of plenty of others.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 56 points 1 year ago

He doesn't even fuck them. It's all invitro. He can't even do that part right.

[-] auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 1 year ago
[-] obvs@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

I think the rumors was botched penis IMplant, but I'm okay with the rumor being botched penis TRANSplant.

[-] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Why do you think Herman Cain had to go? I’ll give you three hints, and they’re all “9”.

[-] hume_lemmy@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago

Gender affirming care, you say?

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

See? The guys just an asshole

[-] obvs@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

Musk has not directly addressed Grok’s failures,

They're not failures.

They're unexpected behavior that is functioning exactly as the developer intended.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Well, I doubt it was the developer. Sounds like one person likely came in, grabbed an engineer, and made some modifications.

[-] myrmidex@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

Now I'm intrigued. In what way did they modify the engineer? :)

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

Grok knows the Nazis are there.

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Classic tech bro pivot

[-] mrbubblesort@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Twitter banned in Europe when?

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 6 points 1 year ago

Right after they stopped voting for far-right politicians.

I wouldn't hold my breath.

[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

So they support Israel but also are holocaust deniers. Interesting.

[-] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] WarlordSdocy@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] blarth@thelemmy.club 10 points 1 year ago

At this point, the damage is done. There’s no way anyone serious can trust grok.

[-] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Soooo why do we waste any time worrying about what the AI owned by a nazi says?

[-] LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al 12 points 1 year ago

Cos it is sadly influential. On the president and population

[-] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

oh god, why can't they stop all this "unauthorized access"??

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

Will it get fined in Finland, then?

[-] blakenong@lemmings.world 5 points 1 year ago
[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

They should just change the name of grok to Neural Artificial Zenith Intelligence.

[-] TheDeadlySquid@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

These people, I swear!

[-] sexy_peach@feddit.org -2 points 1 year ago
this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
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