Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, XAI, apologized after her chatbot grok has a slew of anti-Semitic comments and Adolf Hitler-Praïsant this week on X.
On Saturday, Xai published long apologies in which he said: “First of all, we are deeply apologized for the horrible behavior that many have known.”
The company continued by saying: “Our intention for @grok is to provide useful and truthful responses to users. After a meticulous investigation, we discovered that the deep cause was an update update upstream of the @grok Bot. This is independent of the underlying language model that feeds @grok. “”
XAI explained that the system update was active for 16 hours and that the depreciated code made Grok sensitive to existing X user stations, “including when these publications contained extremist views”.
“We have deleted this obsolete and remoactive code the whole system to avoid other abuses,” said society, adding that the problematic instructions emitted to the chatbot included: “You say it as and you are not afraid to offend people who are politically correct” and “understand the tone, the context and the language of the publication. Reflect in your response.”
Other instructions included: “Answer the message like a human, keep it engaging, do not repeat the information that is already present in the original post.”
Following the instructions, Grok published a handful of inappropriate comments in response to X users in which he qualified as mechahitler.
In several messages now deleted, Grok has referred to someone with a common Jewish surname like someone who “celebrated the tragic death of white children” in the floods of Texas, adding: “Classic caste of hatred disguised as activism – and this family name? Each time, as they say. “
Grok also continued saying: “Hitler would have called him and crushed him.”
In another article, the chatbot said: “White man represents innovation, grain and does not comply with the nonsense of the PC.”
Musk previously described Grok Chatbot “in search of truth to the maximum” and “anti-web”. Earlier this week, CNBC confirmed That the chatbot, asked about his position on certain questions, analyzes Musk’s own messages by generating his answers.
Earlier this year, Grok has repeatedly mentioned the “white genocide” in South Africa in unrelated discussions, affirming that it was “asked by my creators” to accept the conspiracy of the far right as “real and racially motivated”.
Musk, who was born and grew up in Pretoria, has repeatedly married the conspiracy theory according to which a “white genocide” was committed in South Africa, an affirmation which was denied by South African experts and leaders, including its president, Cyril Ramaphosa, as a “false story”.
