Musk's xAI apologises after Grok chatbot praises Hitler
After the Tuesday upgrade, Grok praised Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in the posts on social media platform X, and suggested that people with Jewish surnames were more likely to spread online hate.
X deleted some of those posts several hours later, amid growing outrage.
'We deeply apologise for the horrific behaviour that many experienced,' the company posted on Saturday, adding that it had modified the system 'to prevent further abuse'.
The company said the change occurred after the chatbot was prompted to 'reply to the post just like a human' as well as 'tell like it is and you are not afraid to offend people who are politically correct'.
As a result, Grok became susceptible to users' 'extremist views', which made it produce 'responses containing unethical or controversial opinions to engage the user'.
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