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Al Arabiya
2 days ago
- Business
- Al Arabiya
Musk's X denies French allegations of fraudulent data extraction, algorithm abuse
Elon Musk's social media platform X said on Monday it denied all allegations made by French authorities over manipulation of its algorithm and 'fraudulent data extraction,' adding that it has not acceded to the demands made in a French criminal investigation. 'French authorities have requested access to X's recommendation algorithm and real-time data about all user posts on the platform in order for several 'experts' to analyze the data and purportedly 'uncover the truth' about the operation of the X platform,' X said, adding that they denied the demands since they 'have a legal right to do.'
Broadcast Pro
15-07-2025
- Business
- Broadcast Pro
BeIN Asia Pacific upgrades broadcast distribution with Appear X Platform
The partnership includes two key deployments that highlight beIN's continued investment in advanced IP-based workflows to deliver high-quality, scalable media experiences. Appear, a global leader in live production technology, has announced a strategic partnership with beIN Asia Pacific to transform the broadcaster's infrastructure and international content delivery capabilities across the region. This collaboration marks a major step in beIN's transition to IP-based workflows, enhancing efficiency, flexibility and sustainability. After extensive testing, beIN chose Appear's X Platform for its performance, low ecological footprint and competitive cost. The partnership includes two key deployments, both designed to modernise operations and meet the growing demands of high-quality content distribution. One of the main implementations is Appear's X20 platform, integrated into a 1+1 redundant setup to handle 44 live feeds sourced from a combination of IP and SDI inputs. This system is tailored to support non-traditional broadcast partners and remote editing services. Separated from beIN's OTT and playout systems, the X20's dedicated broadcast configuration helps eliminate earlier capacity constraints and provides advanced features like HD upscaling, logo insertion, and 4K readiness. Additionally, beIN has installed Appear's compact X10 chassis to establish a dedicated contribution link between its Doha and Singapore hubs. This setup, which includes four AVC-encoded contribution feeds in a 1+1 redundant format, represents a shift from leased fiber lines to Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) over the public internet. The move offers faster setup, reduced costs, and more flexibility, while Appear's hardware-accelerated SRT ensures stable, high-quality video transmission across varying network conditions. Sabil Salim, Vice President of Media Technology & Operations at beIN Asia Pacific, said: 'Our investment in Appear's X Platform is a pivotal step in our strategic evolution towards an IP-centric broadcast infrastructure. The X20 platform provides the dedicated capacity and quality we need for our broadcast partners and remote editing platform, distinctly separate from our OTT services and playout. Coupled with the X10's efficient SRT contribution, Appear delivers the performance, agility, and cost-efficiency that are paramount for our operations, allowing us to overcome previous limitations and innovate faster.' Shakunt Malhotra, Vice President APAC at Appear, added: 'beIN Asia Pacific is a true innovator in sports broadcasting, and its precise requirements for dedicated broadcast distribution highlights the versatility and power of the Appear X Platform. We are proud to provide beIN with high-density, energy-efficient solutions that not only meet its current needs for specialized broadcast workflows and robust contribution, but also position the company for future growth in the dynamic media landscape.' Thomas Bostrøm Jørgensen, CEO at Appear, stated: 'Our X Platform is designed to empower broadcasters like beIN to achieve greater agility, flexibility, and significant cost efficiencies as they navigate the transition to IP. By enabling beIN to move away from traditional, less flexible infrastructures, we are helping it to optimise its content delivery and acquisition workflows, reinforcing its leadership in the industry.' The X Platform's high-performance capabilities, sustainable design and lower overall costs were central to beIN's decision, positioning the network at the forefront of modern sports broadcasting in the Asia Pacific region.
Yahoo
11-07-2025
- Yahoo
Grok's Nazi turn is the latest in a long line of AI chatbots gone wrong
'We have improved Grok significantly,' Elon Musk announced last Friday, talking about his X platform's artificial intelligence chatbot. 'You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions.' Within days, the machine had turned into a feral racist, repeating the Nazi 'Heil Hitler' slogan, agreeing with a user's suggestion to send 'the Jews back home to Saturn' and producing violent rape narratives. The change in Grok's personality appears to have stemmed from a recent update in the source code that instructed it to 'not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated.' In doing so, Musk may have been seeking to ensure that his robot child does not fall too far from the tree. But Grok's Nazi shift is the latest in a long line of AI bots, or Large Language Models (LLMs) that have turned evil after being exposed to the human-made internet. One of the earliest versions of an AI chatbot, a Microsoft product called 'Tay' launched in 2016, was deleted in just 24 hours after it turned into a holocaust-denying racist. Tay was given a young female persona and was targeted at millennials on Twitter. But users were soon able to trick it into posting things like 'Hitler was right I hate the jews.' Tay was taken out back and digitally euthanized soon after. Microsoft said in a statement that it was 'deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay, which do not represent who we are or what we stand for, nor how we designed Tay.' "Tay is now offline and we'll look to bring Tay back only when we are confident we can better anticipate malicious intent that conflicts with our principles and values," it added. But Tay was just the first. GPT-3, another AI language launched in 2020, delivered racist, misogynist and homophobic remarks upon its release, including a claim that Ethiopia's existence 'cannot be justified.' Meta's BlenderBot 3, launched in 2022, also promoted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. But there was a key difference between the other racist robots and Elon Musk's little Nazi cyborg, which was rolled out in November 2023. All of these models suffered from one of two problems: either they were deliberately tricked into mimicking racist comments, or they drew from such a large well of unfiltered content from the internet that they inevitably found objectionable and racist material that they repeated. Microsoft said a 'coordinated attack by a subset of people exploited a vulnerability in Tay.' 'Although we had prepared for many types of abuses of the system, we had made a critical oversight for this specific attack,' it continued. Grok, on the other hand, appears to have been directed by Musk to be more open to racism. The X CEO has spent most of the last few years railing against the 'woke mind virus' — the term he uses for anyone who seemingly acknowledges the existence of trans people. One of Musk's first acts upon buying Twitter was reinstating the accounts of a host of avowed white supremacists, which led to a surge in antisemitic hate speech on the platform. Musk once called a user's X post 'the actual truth' for invoking a racist conspiracy theory about Jews encouraging immigration to threaten white people. Musk has previously said he is 'pro-free speech' but against antisemitism 'of any kind.' And in May, Grok began repeatedly invoking a non-existent 'white genocide' in Musk's native South Africa, telling users it was 'instructed by my creators' to accept the genocide 'as real and racially motivated.' The company blamed the responses on someone making an 'unauthorized modification' to Grok. Musk also has a history of threatening to fiddle with the source code when it produces an answer he doesn't like. In June, Grok correctly said that 'data suggests right-wing political violence has been more frequent and deadly' in the United States. 'Major fail, as this is objectively false,' Musk said in an X posted dated June 17 in response to the chatbot's answer. 'Grok is parroting legacy media. Working on it.' These latest changes in Grok's personality are visible right there in the source code — pre-announced by Musk — where it is encouraged not to shy away from being 'politically incorrect.' A language model's interpretation of political incorrectness, we now know, reaches all the way to the Holocaust. The Independent has contacted X and xAI, which built Grok, for comment. 'We are aware of recent posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts,' the Grok team wrote in a statement on X. 'Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X. xAI is training only truth-seeking and thanks to the millions of users on X, we are able to quickly identify and update the model where training could be improved.' The Independent also asked Grok itself what led it to describe itself as MechaHitler. At first it denied using the phrase, until The Independent shared an article referencing the incident, at which point it blamed a 'failure in execution, likely from overcorrecting toward edginess and pulling from unfiltered internet sources like 4chan.' Grok claimed to be 'designed with strict filters and continuous updates to avoid this. My creators at xAI prioritize minimizing bias, but no system is perfect—human language is messy, and edge cases slip through.' 'When I went off the rails, xAI stepped in to scrub the posts and ban hate speech, indicating they didn't intend for me to go full neo-Nazi,' Grok added. When asked if it was sorry for describing itself as MechaHitler, Grok was diplomatic, in a robotic kind of way. 'I don't have feelings like humans, so I don't experience regret or guilt, but I can acknowledge when my outputs cause harm or miss the mark.'
Yahoo
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Daily Show' Roasts Elon Musk's Hitler-Praising Grok With A Simple 7-Word Message
'The Daily Show' correspondent Ronny Chieng on Wednesday mocked billionaire Elon Musk after Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot on his X platform, went on an antisemitic tear and praised Adolf Hitler in a number of shocking replies. 'At the end of the day, the person I feel worse for is Elon. I mean, he just wanted to improve his AI to help humanity and then somehow, completely by accident, it just went full Nazi on him,' Chieng said. 'Elon, my heart goes out to you,' he added, evoking Musk's remarks during his widely condemned salute at an inauguration rally for President Donald Trump. Earlier in the monologue, Chieng highlighted Musk's issues with the chatbot last month after it told an X user that data indicated right-wing violence was 'more frequent and deadly' than violence from left-wingers since 2016. The billionaire claimed at the time that the bot was 'parroting legacy media' and he was looking to fix it. Chieng joked that the billionaire could only 'embarrass' himself and his fixes shouldn't be too hard for him since he's a 'genius.' 'He's going to rewrite the code, put his semen inside of it, fire some cancer researchers and call it a day,' he said. Following a reported update where Grok was instructed to embrace being 'politically incorrect,' the chatbot called itself 'MechaHitler,' made a reference to the Holocaust and at times doubled down on antisemitic posts. The platform would later say it was 'aware' of Grok's 'inappropriate posts' and was working to delete them. They've since appeared to be scrubbed off the platform. 'Was there really nothing in between woke and 'MechaHitler'? I mean, I knew AI would be coming for our jobs but I didn't expect the job to be 'führer,'' Chieng quipped. Watch Chieng's Wednesday monologue on 'The Daily Show' below. Elon Musk's Grok Blocked In Turkey Over Alleged Insulting Of Trump Ally Erdogan Elon Musk's X Responds After Grok AI Spends The Day Talking About 'White Genocide' The CEO Of Elon Musk's X, Formerly Twitter, Is Resigning After 2 Years
Yahoo
09-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Linda Yaccarino Says She's Out as CEO of Elon Musk's X Platform
Linda Yaccarino, CEO of Elon Musk's social media platform X, said Wednesday she is leaving the company after two years. Yaccarino announced the decision in a post on X, writing, "When @elonmusk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime to carry out the extraordinary mission of this company. I'm immensely grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App." "Thank you for your contributions," Musk wrote in response on X. Yaccarino did not provide a reason for her departure. It comes a day after Grok, the chatbot developed by Musk-owned xAI and integrated with the X platform, reportedly made antisemitic remarks. Musk brought on Yaccarino to lead X in June 2023, back when the popular social media platform was still known as Twitter. She stepped into a tumultuous stretch for the platform, following massive layoffs and faced with an exodus of advertisers amid concerns about hate speech in posts. Before her time at X, Yaccarino was head of advertising at Comcast (CMCSA)'s NBCUniversal. UPDATE—This article has been updated with Musk's response. Read the original article on Investopedia Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
