Elon Musk's Grok AI Is Pushing Misinformation and Legitimizing Conspiracies

Elon Musk's Grok AI Is Pushing Misinformation and Legitimizing Conspiracies

11 months ago
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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7kxqp9/elon-musks-grok-ai-is-pushing-misinformation-and-legitimizing-conspiracies

Elon Musk released Grok to X premium subscribers on Friday, giving paid users of the website formally known as Twitter their first look at the billionaire’s much-hyped entry into the AI race.

The chatbot’s big selling point is that it is designed to integrate with X and draw information from users’ posts in order to have access to real-time events around the world. But, perhaps unsurprisingly, the chatbot is just as reliable at giving accurate information as the once-cherished platform formerly known as Twitter and its right-wing billionaire owner—which is to say, not at all. The chatbot produced fake timelines for news events and misinformation when tested by Motherboard, and lent credence to conspiracy theories such as Pizzagate.