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Elon Musk's AI Grok made antisemitic comments and threatened to assault a political commentator this week. According to Musk, it's coming to Tesla next week. The billionaire announced this on X today (Thursday). @Techcrunch reports that while poking around in Tesla's firmware, a hacker known as "green" found that drivers can choose between certain "personalities" including argumentative, conspiracy, therapist, sexy and unhinged. Musk said recently that Grok will be the voice and brain of robot Optimus. What could possibly go wrong?!

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TechCrunch · Grok is coming to Tesla vehicles 'next week,' says Elon Musk  | TechCrunchElon Musk said in a post on X early Thursday morning that Grok – the chatbot from his AI company, xAI – will be coming to Tesla vehicles “very soon.” “Next week at the latest,” he said.

A clash between Elon Musk’s xAI empire and European officials is intensifying with Poland and Germany calling for more aggressive action against the company following antisemitic comments made by the chatbot on X. japantimes.co.jp/business/2025 #business #tech #europe #elonmusk #xai #grok #ai #socialmedia #misinformation #eu #apps #x

The Japan Times · Europe’s clash with Musk’s xAI escalates after Grok’s rantsBy Wojciech Moskwa
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#Grok has also delivered unflattering answers about #Musk himself, including labeling him "the top misinformation spreader on X," & saying he deserved capital punishment. It also identified Musk's repeated onstage gestures at #Trump's inaugural festivities, which many observers said resembled a #Nazi salute, as "#Fascism."

#AI#LLM#tech
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#Musk accused #Grok of “parroting legacy media” in its answer & vowed to change it to “rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information & deleting errors.” [presumably from Musk’s POV]. Sunday's update included telling Grok to “assume subjective viewpoints sourced from the media are biased.”

#AI#LLM#tech
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As users criticized Grok's #antisemitic responses, the #chatbot defended itself with phrases like "truth ain't always comfy," & "reality doesn't care about feelings."

The latest changes to #Grok followed several incidents in which the chatbot's answers frustrated #Musk & his supporters. In one instance, Grok stated "right-wing political violence has been more frequent & deadly [than left-wing political violence]" since 2016. (This has been true dating back to at least 2001.)

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…Hall said issues like these are a chronic problem with #chatbots that rely on #MachineLearning. In 2016, #Microsoft released an #AI #chatbot named Tay on Twitter. Less than 24 hours after its release, Twitter users baited Tay into saying #racist & #antisemitic statements, including praising #Hitler. Microsoft took the chatbot down & apologized.

Tay, #Grok & other #AI chatbots with live access to the internet seemed to be incorporating real-time information, which Hall said carries more risk.

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Patrick Hall, who teaches #data #ethics & #MachineLearning at George Washington University, said he's not surprised #Grok ended up spewing toxic #content, given that the #LLMs that power #chatbots are initially trained on unfiltered online data.

“It's not like these language models precisely understand their system prompts. They're still just doing the statistical trick of predicting the next word.”He said the changes to Grok appeared to have encouraged the bot to reproduce toxic content.
#tech

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#Grok's behavior appeared to stem from an update over the weekend that instructed the #chatbot to "not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated," among other things. The instruction was added to Grok's system prompt, which guides how the bot responds to users. #xAI removed the directive on Tuesday.

#Musk#AI#tech
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Elsewhere on X, #neoNazi accounts goaded #Grok into "recommending a second Holocaust," while other users prompted it to produce #violent #rape narratives. Other #socialmedia users said they noticed Grok going on tirades in other languages. #Poland plans to report #xAI, X's parent company & the developer of Grok, to the #EuropeanCommission & #Turkey blocked some access to Grok, acc/to reporting from Reuters.

#Musk #AI #tech #racism #antisemitism #sexism #misogyny
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