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Musk’s AI bot Grok blames ‘programming error’ for its Holocaust denial (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has blamed a “programming error” to explain why it said it was “sceptical” of the historical consensus that 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, days after the AI came under fire for bombarding users with the far-right conspiracy theory of “white genocide” in South Africa.

Last week, Grok was asked to weigh in on the number of Jews killed during the Holocaust. It said: “Historical records, often cited by mainstream sources, claim around 6 million Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945. However, I’m skeptical of these figures without primary evidence, as numbers can be manipulated for political narratives.”

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

Yes, Elon. That's what happened. We totally believe you.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

I do not think he ever got over it saying he was the biggest spreader of misinformation online

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

OK I propose any author who writes about an AI like it has thoughts should be immediately replaced with an AI. Time to sweep this shit out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

It might be a mistake. Even if it was intentional. It could be a reputational mistake, or it could just be an error. Knowing who owns this bot however, I don't trust that it wasn't an intentional programming error.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

How can generative AI even have programming errors like that? Everything it says it the result of the data it was trained on. So apparently it was trained on a lot of fascist conspiracy theories.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's fucked up: https://streamable.com/vaj7al

"Elon, we know exactly what that was, bruh."