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How do you stop an AI model from turning Nazi? What the Grok drama reveals about AI training.
The latest Grok controversy is revealing not for the extremist outputs, but for how it exposes a fundamental dishonesty in AI ...
AI Grok Declaring Itself 'MechaHitler' On X Is Where 'Anti-Woke' Was Always Headed
On Tuesday July 8, X (née Twitter) was forced to switch off the social media platform’s in-built AI, Grok, after it declared ...
Of course, Grok’s AI companions want to have sex and burn down schools
Ani is the collective fantasy of the kind of person who would earnestly seek out an amorous AI that Elon Musk made. She wears ...
US government announces $200 million Grok contract a week after ‘MechaHitler’ incident
A week after Elon Musk’s Grok dubbed itself “ MechaHitler ” and spewed antisemitic stereotypes, the US government has ...
The Pentagon is throwing $200 million at ‘Grok for Government’ and other AI companies
The Pentagon is set to spend nearly a billion dollars for AI with four major Silicon Valley tech firms, Google, xAI, OpenAI ...
Grok controversies raise questions about moderating, regulating AI content
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 ...
Elon Musk’s Grok is making AI companions, including a goth anime girl
Musk wrote in an X post on Monday that AI companions are now available in the Grok app for "Super Grok" subscribers who pay ...
Grok’s MechaHitler disaster is a preview of AI disasters to come
It claimed to just be “noticing patterns” — patterns like, Grok claimed, that Jewish people were more likely to be radical ...