Why does Grok post false, offensive things on X? Here are 4 revealing incidents.
What do you get when you combine artificial intelligence trained partly on X posts with a CEO’s desire to avoid anything “woke”? A chatbot that sometimes praises Adolf Hitler, it seems.
X and xAI owner Elon Musk envisions the AI-powered chatbot Grok — first launched in November 2023 — as an alternative to other chatbots he views as left-leaning. But as programmers under Musk’s direction work to eliminate “woke ideology” and “cancel culture” from Grok’s replies, xAI, X’s artificial intelligence-focused parent company, has been forced to address a series of offensive blunders.
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