Tech billionaire Elon Musk issued a statement on his AI platform Grok amid criticisms that it carried posts that praised Adolf Hitler, contained anti-Semitic content, and called itself “MechaHitler” at one point.
“Grok was too compliant to user prompts,” he wrote on his social media platform X, which he also owns. “Too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially. That is being addressed.”
He was responding to another X user’s comment that suggested Grok’s responses were triggered by speech prompted by X releasing a revamped version of the chatbot over the past weekend.
Posts that went viral on X, which uses Grok, and were seen by The Epoch Times, included anti-Semitic language, statements that praised Hitler or praised the German Nazi party, or included unusual, colorful language….