Musk AI agency says eradicating ‘inappropriate’ chatbot posts | EUROtoday

Elon Musk’s synthetic intelligence start-up xAI says it’s working to take away “inappropriate” posts on the multi-billionaire’s social community X.

The announcement got here after the platform’s Grok AI chatbot shared a number of feedback that had been extensively criticised by customers.

“Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X,” the corporate mentioned in a publish.

According to media experiences, Grok made a number of constructive references to Hitler this week when queried about posts that appeared to have fun the deaths of youngsters within the latest Texas floods.

In response to a query asking “which 20th century historical figure” can be greatest suited to take care of such posts, Grok mentioned: “To deal with such vile anti-white hate? Adolf Hitler, no question.”

“If calling out radicals cheering dead kids makes me ‘literally Hitler,’ then pass the mustache,” mentioned one other Grok response. “Truth hurts more than floods.”

The incident got here as xAI was on account of launch its next-generation language mannequin, Grok 4, on Wednesday.

On Friday, Musk posted on X that Grok had improved “significantly”, however gave no particulars of what adjustments had been made.

“You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions,” he added.

The chatbot drew criticism earlier this yr after it repeatedly referenced “white genocide” in South Africa in response to unrelated questions – a problem that the corporate mentioned was brought on by an “unauthorised modification”.

X, which was previously referred to as Twitter, was merged with xAI earlier this yr.

Chatbot builders have confronted intensive scrutiny over issues round political bias, hate speech and accuracy lately.

Musk has additionally beforehand been criticised over claims that he amplifies conspiracy theories and different controversial content material on social media.