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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    12 hours ago

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

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

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      1 day 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.

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    Musk has not directly addressed Grok’s failures,

    They’re not failures.

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

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

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      11 hours ago

      Right after they stopped voting for far-right politicians.

      I wouldn’t hold my breath.

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    You know it was “musk the nazi” personally behind this change. Fuck this guy and his pet talking Cheeto.

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    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.