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Yahoo
8 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Elon Musk's xAI apologizes for Grok chatbot's antisemitic responses
Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot feature issued an apology after it made several antisemitic posts on the social media site X this week. In a statement posted to X on July 12, xAI, the artificial intelligence company that makes the chatbot program, apologized for "horrific behavior" on the platform. Users reported receiving responses that praised Hitler, used antisemitic phrases and attacked users with traditionally Jewish surnames. More: Grok coming to Tesla vehicles 'next week at the latest,' Musk says "We deeply apologize for the horrific behavior that many experienced," the company's statement said. "Our intent for @grok is to provide helpful and truthful responses to users. After careful investigation, we discovered the root cause was an update to a code path upstream of the @grok bot." The company, founded by Musk in 2023 as a challenger to Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Alphabet's Google, said the update to the program resulted in a deviation in the AI chatbot's behavior. It was operational for 16 hours before it was removed as a result of the reported extremist language. Users on X shared multiple posts July 8 in which Grok repeated antisemitic stereotypes about Jewish people, among various other antisemitic comments. It's not the first time xAI's chatbot has raised alarm for its responses. In May, the chatbot mentioned "white genocide" in South Africa in unrelated conversations. At the time, xAI said the incident was the result of an 'unauthorized modification' to its online code. A day after the alarming posts last week, Musk unveiled a new version of the chatbot, Grok 4, on July 9. The Tesla billionaire and former adviser to President Donald Trump, said in June he would retrain the AI platform after expressing frustration with the way Grok answered questions. Musk said the tweaks his xAI company had made to Grok made the chatbot too susceptible to being manipulated by users' questions. AI News: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's lawyers fined for AI-generated court filing More: 'MechaHitler': Elon Musk AI firm scrubs chatbot Grok's antisemitic rants 'Grok was too compliant to user prompts,' Musk wrote in a post on X after announcing the new version. 'Too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially. That is being addressed.' Grok 3, which was released in February, is available for free, while the new versions Grok 4 and Grok 4 Heavy, go for $30 and $300 a month, respectively. Contributing: Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY. Kathryn Palmer is a national trending news reporter for USA TODAY. You can reach her at kapalmer@ and on X @KathrynPlmr. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Musk's xAI apologizes for Grok chatbot's antisemitic responses
USA Today
8 hours ago
- Business
- USA Today
Elon Musk's xAI apologizes for Grok chatbot's antisemitic responses
Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot feature issued an apology after it made several antisemitic posts on the social media site X this week. In a statement posted to X on July 12, xAI, the artificial intelligence company that makes the chatbot program, apologized for "horrific behavior" on the platform. Users reported receiving responses that praised Hitler, used antisemitic phrases and attacked users with traditionally Jewish surnames. "We deeply apologize for the horrific behavior that many experienced," the company's statement said. "Our intent for @grok is to provide helpful and truthful responses to users. After careful investigation, we discovered the root cause was an update to a code path upstream of the @grok bot." The company, founded by Musk in 2023 as a challenger to Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Alphabet's Google, said the update to the program resulted in a deviation in the AI chatbot's behavior. It was operational for 16 hours before it was removed as a result of the reported extremist language. Users on X shared multiple posts July 8 in which Grok repeated antisemitic stereotypes about Jewish people, among various other antisemitic comments. It's not the first time xAI's chatbot has raised alarm for its responses. In May, the chatbot mentioned "white genocide" in South Africa in unrelated conversations. At the time, xAI said the incident was the result of an 'unauthorized modification' to its online code. A day after the alarming posts last week, Musk unveiled a new version of the chatbot, Grok 4, on July 9. The Tesla billionaire and former adviser to President Donald Trump, said in June he would retrain the AI platform after expressing frustration with the way Grok answered questions. Musk said the tweaks his xAI company had made to Grok made the chatbot too susceptible to being manipulated by users' questions. 'Grok was too compliant to user prompts,' Musk wrote in a post on X after announcing the new version. 'Too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially. That is being addressed.' Grok 3, which was released in February, is available for free, while the new versions Grok 4 and Grok 4 Heavy, go for $30 and $300 a month, respectively. Contributing: Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY. Kathryn Palmer is a national trending news reporter for USA TODAY. You can reach her atkapalmer@ and on X @KathrynPlmr.
Mint
a day ago
- Mint
xAI apologises for Grok's ‘horrific behaviour', explains what went wrong with Elon Musk's chatbot
xAI has apollogized for the inappropriate behaviour shown by its Grok AI chatbot where it went on to hurl abuses at users, showed anti-semitic behaviour and even lavished praises on Hitler. Calling Grok's behaviour as 'horrific' the company noted that it was due to a 'deprecated code' update which was active for around 16 hours that made the chatbot susceptible to X user's post that included extremist views. 'After careful investigation, we discovered the root cause was an update to a code path upstream of the @grok bot. This is independent of the underlying language model that powers @grok. The update was active for 16 hrs, in which deprecated code made @grok susceptible to existing X user posts; including when such posts contained extremist views. We have removed that deprecated code and refactored the entire system to prevent further abuse.' the company explained in a post on X.
TECHx
2 days ago
- Automotive
- TECHx
Grok AI Chatbot Coming to Tesla Vehicles Soon
Home » Tech in Daily Life » Grok AI Chatbot Coming to Tesla Vehicles Soon Elon Musk has announced that Grok AI, the chatbot developed by his artificial intelligence company xAI, will be integrated into Tesla vehicles. He shared the update in a post on X early Thursday morning. Musk said the feature will arrive 'very soon,' possibly by next week. The news comes shortly after xAI unveiled Grok 4, its latest flagship AI model. Grok AI is designed as a conversational assistant with access to real-time information. According to xAI, the chatbot has a slightly sarcastic tone and aims to answer a wide range of user questions. Currently, Grok AI is available to users subscribed to X Premium+, the top tier of the social platform formerly known as Twitter. The chatbot has been positioned as an alternative to other generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini. Now, it's headed to Tesla vehicles. Although Musk did not detail how Grok AI will function inside the cars, the move suggests new voice-activated features could be on the way. These may include tasks like navigating, providing real-time updates, or offering conversation during autonomous driving. This update also shows closer ties between Musk's companies. By bringing Grok AI into Tesla, xAI's capabilities will directly enhance the in-car experience. Tesla has already placed strong focus on AI for self-driving and vehicle intelligence. Grok's integration adds another layer to that effort. While users will have to wait for specific details, the timeline appears short. Musk's comment points to a rollout within the next few days. As Tesla continues to evolve its software features, Grok AI may become a standard part of the in-vehicle interface.
New York Post
2 days ago
- Politics
- New York Post
Behind Grok's racist debacle, Dems' violent rage and other commentary
Eye on AI: Behind Grok's Racist Debacle Racists and trolls smirked when Elon Musk's Grok AI was caught 'propagating antisemitic talking points, fantasizing about rape, and blaming Mossad for the death of Jeffrey Epstein,' notes Mary Harrington at UnHerd, but the tech-besotted fallacy here is the faith that 'a big enough pattern-recognition engine will converge on both truth and consciousness.' True wisdom is 'not just an ability to notice patterns'; it requires 'contextual awareness and common sense.' Sadly, we have 'bracketed' reflection on the meanings of truth and consciousness, and so 'are woefully short of mental tools for parsing these subtle questions.' Advertisement Conservative: Dems' Violent Rage 'We're just now learning how angry' Dems are about Donald Trump's 2024 victory, mourns the Washington Examiner's Byron York, as some 'are calling on their elected representatives to engage in violence against Trump's policies.' One anonymous lawmaker even said, ' 'civility isn't working' and to get ready for 'violence . . . to fight to protect our democracy.' ' Advertisement These Dems are past 'the defeat-them-at-the-ballot-box stage of politics, and even beyond the protest-by-civil-disobedience stage.' Atop lionized-on-the-left Luigi Mangoine, the Free Palestine fanatic accused of 'killing two Israeli Embassy staff members' and the 'Democratic lawmakers or Democratic support groups' involved in the LA riots, 'a militant group broadly allied with Democratic views launched' an attack on ICE in Texas last weekend. 'It's a troubling picture, and nothing on the immediate horizon suggests it will improve any time soon.' Nobel watch: Trump the Peacemaker Advertisement 'President Donald Trump is the last person the Norwegian Nobel Committee would honor with its Peace Prize. Yet, it should,' argues USA Today's Nicole Russell. 'Trump has helped end an escalating war between Israel and Iran, a conflict that easily could have engulfed the entire Middle East, with a single military strike. Now, he is pressing for a lengthy ceasefire between Israel and Hamas as a bridge to a more permanent peace.' The 2024 Peace Prize went 'to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo' for trying to rid the world of nukes; 'Trump, by heading off a nuclear-armed Iran, achieved that mission tenfold in June.' 'Trump's critics would melt into puddles of outrage, of course, if it were ever to happen.' But, 'if Trump isn't a peacemaker, then who is?' Libertarian: The Case for Pardoning Snowden Advertisement By pardoning Edward Snowden, President Trump 'could really give the finger to the D.C. establishment' and also 'do the right thing,' urges Reason's Zach Weissmueller. The documents Snowden leaked proved that then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper 'lied in his Senate testimony' in March 2013 when he claimed that the NSA wasn't 'wittingly' collecting data on Americans and 'revealed numerous illegal intrusions on the private communications of millions of Americans,' including 'the existence of the secret electronic surveillance program known as PRISM, whereby the NSA forced companies like Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Apple to turn over their users' personal information with secret court orders.' Snowden's actions 'inspired Congressional reform and, most importantly, brought public awareness' to the feds' surveillance. 'We owe Snowden an enormous debt, and Trump should let him come home.' From the left: For Dems, OBBBA Reality Sinks In Democrats saw passage of President Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' as 'a big political gift,' but that sense 'has clearly begun to fade,' observes The Bulwark's Lauren Egan: 'The euphoria Democratic leaders felt is now colored by fear that Republicans may not pay that steep a political price for the bill.' Dem officials worry 'the party has failed to present its own policy alternative' and 'may fumble the midterms because of a misreading of this moment.' Democratic advisers urge party leaders to develop 'a new agenda' to avoid 'defending the status quo' in a 'never-ending doom loop.' Advertisement Some Dem electeds may even want to join Republicans 'in bringing attention to the benefits' tucked into Trump's bill. — Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
