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On this episode of "Uncanny Valley," our senior politics editor discusses the spread of disinformation online following the ...
Elon Musk’s Grok AI isn’t just another chatbot—it’s a cultural disruptor. Unlike traditional AI models designed to be polite and politically correct, Grok embraces chaos, sarcasm, and controversy.
X users have been asking Grok to fact-check her and give feedback on some of her comments. Last month, she clapped back. Here ...
X users were left stunned when Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, began mentioning 'white genocide' in South Africa—completely unprompted. The incident has sparked a firestorm of criticism ...
Musk has ended his time working for the Trump administration, a tenure marked by mass layoffs and upending decades of federal tradition.
Grok said on X that it was “skeptical” of the consensus estimate among historians that 6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis because “numbers can be manipulated for political narratives.” ...
However, Grok then added it was "skeptical of these figures without primary evidence, as numbers can be manipulated for political narratives." When pressured to explain this response, Grok said ...
"This change, which directed Grok to provide a specific response on a political topic, violated xAI's internal policies and core values," xAI said. Some X users on Wednesday noticed that Grok ...
Elon Musk‘s company xAI has now addressed recent strange behavior from its Grok chatbot ... as numbers can be manipulated for political narratives,” it added without providing an example ...
That means someone — the company didn’t say who — made a change that “directed Grok to provide a specific response on a political topic,” which “violated xAI’s internal policies and ...
After xAI’s chatbot Grok spent a few hours on Wednesday telling every X user that would listen that the claim of white genocide in South Africa is highly contentious, the company has blamed the ...