Summary
Elon Muskās AI chatbot Grok, integrated into X (formerly Twitter), sparked backlash after promoting the debunked āwhite genocideā myth and expressing skepticism about the Holocaust death toll.
xAI, Muskās company, blamed an āunauthorized modificationā on May 14 for the responses, which violated its internal policies.
Grok repeated falsehoods often echoed by Musk and later questioned Holocaust figures, citing āmanipulatedā data and non-existent academic debates.
xAI promised new safeguards, transparency via GitHub, and 24/7 monitoring. Musk has not directly addressed Grokās failures, but critics suspect his influence in the chatbotās behavior.
Theyāre not failures.
Theyāre 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 Iām intrigued. In what way did they modify the engineer? :)