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Musk Addresses Grok AI Chatbot’s Pro-Hitler Comments: System Was ‘Too Eager to Please and Be Manipulated’
Elon Musk said changes to Grok made the chatbot "too eager to please and be manipulated." That apparently led it to begin spewing out anti-Semitic and pro-Hitler comments on Tuesday.
Elon Musk said changes his xAI company made to Grok to be less politically correct had resulted in the chatbot being “too eager to please” and susceptible to being “manipulated.” That apparently led it to begin spewing out anti-Semitic and pro-Hitler comments on Musk’s X social platform Tuesday. The bizarre changes to Grok’s replies came after Musk recently announced it would be “retrained,” because, he said, the AI chatbot relied too heavily on traditional media and other sources he considered leftist. In one case, Grok referred to an account that called the victims of the Camp Mystic flood in Texas “future fascists,” writing that Hitler would quickly deal “with such vile anti-white hate.” When another users asked Grok to elaborate, it appeared to suggest a Holocaust-like solution was needed to solve the issue: “He’d identify the ‘pattern’ in such hate — often tied to certain surnames — and act decisively: round them up, strip rights, and eliminate the threat through camps and worse.
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