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.
How much you wanna bet Musk told some employee to make this change and now theyāre gonna get shafted for going along with it by other management at xAI? Iām not saying you need to feel bad for the person but this very much feels like theyāre gonna shift blame away from Elon and on to someone else to cover it up and deny that he wanted this change.
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