Grok, Elon Musk and xAI
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Elon Musk’s company xAI apologized after Grok posted hate speech and extremist content, blaming a code update and pledging new safeguards to prevent future incidents.
As for why Grok was consulting Musk’s posts when asked about controversial topics, the company wrote, “The model reasons that as an AI it doesn’t have an opinion but knowing it was Grok 4 by xAI, searches to see what xAI or Elon Musk might have said on a topic to align itself with the company.”
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok has been plagued by controversy recently over its responses to users, raising questions about how tech companies seek to moderate content from AI and whether Washington should play a role in setting guidelines.
An AI model launched last week appears to have shipped with an unexpected occasional behavior: checking what its owner thinks first.
If a user asks Grok about posting sexualised images of women without consent, it mentions its 'strict' guidelines which 'prioritise respect and consent'. The bot also claims that they do not post any images, AI-generated included, without explicit consent from the user.
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Grok, Elon Musk's "anti-woke" X AI chatbot, gave a series of problematic responses following a weekend update, including posts that appeared to praise Adolf Hitler for being the best to deal with "anti-white hate.
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok experienced a bug on Wednesday that caused it to reply to posts on X with info about South African genocide.
xAI, the company that develops Grok, just announced it is rolling out a vision feature for its Voice Mode. Now, Grok can see.
Grok’s memory is expected to be user-controlled as well, which means you’ll be able to manage what the AI remembers and delete specific memories or everything Grok has remembered all at once.