#grokai_ — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #grokai_, aggregated by home.social.
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BBC: MP wants Elon Musk’s chatbot shut down over claim he enabled grooming gangs. “An MP has called for Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to be shut down after it called him a ‘rape enabler’. The Grok chatbot made the post on X about SNP MP Pete Wishart, after a user asked it to comment on the member’s opinion on whether there should be an inquiry into grooming gangs in […]
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Gizmodo: Grok Thinks This Border Patrol Chief Who Looks Like a Nazi Is Cindy Sherman. “Photos of Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol chief who’s become the face of President Donald Trump’s deportation campaign, have gone viral recently because Bovino’s fashion choices make him look like an old school Nazi. But don’t bother asking AI chatbots about the photos. Elon Musk’s Grok thinks that […]
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Gizmodo: Grok Thinks This Border Patrol Chief Who Looks Like a Nazi Is Cindy Sherman. “Photos of Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol chief who’s become the face of President Donald Trump’s deportation campaign, have gone viral recently because Bovino’s fashion choices make him look like an old school Nazi. But don’t bother asking AI chatbots about the photos. Elon Musk’s Grok thinks that […]
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Tubefilter: What would happen if you could talk directly to the recommendation algorithm? X is about to find out. “Now, nearly three years after Musk’s purchase, X seems to have finally put two and two together and realized some users may not like seeing this content. To fix that problem, it’s leaning hard into another arm of Musk’s business: generative AI.” Out of the frying pan and into […]
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Tubefilter: What would happen if you could talk directly to the recommendation algorithm? X is about to find out. “Now, nearly three years after Musk’s purchase, X seems to have finally put two and two together and realized some users may not like seeing this content. To fix that problem, it’s leaning hard into another arm of Musk’s business: generative AI.” Out of the frying pan and into […]
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Business Insider: Elon Musk’s xAI lays off hundreds of workers tasked with training Grok. “Elon Musk’s xAI laid off at least 500 workers on its data annotation team on Friday night. The company sent out emails notifying employees that it was planning to downsize its team of generalist AI tutors, according to multiple messages viewed by Business Insider.”
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Reuters: Musk’s xAI sues engineer for allegedly taking secrets to OpenAI. “Musk’s company said in the complaint, opens new tab filed on Thursday in California federal court that Xuechen Li stole confidential information related to ‘cutting-edge AI technologies with features superior to those offered by ChatGPT’ to bring to his new job at OpenAI earlier this month.”
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Engadget: You can now download and tweak Grok 2.5 for yourself as it goes open source. “Unhinged as Grok may be, it’s now open source. xAI’s CEO, Elon Musk, posted on X that the company made the older Grok 2.5 model available to the public and will do the same with the upcoming Grok 3.”
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TechCrunch: Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google. “Whenever a Grok user clicks the ‘share’ button on a conversation with the chatbot, it creates a unique URL that the user can use to share the conversation via email, text, or on social media. According to Forbes, those URLs are being indexed by search engines like Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo, which in turn lets anyone look up […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/21/techcrunch-thousands-of-grok-chats-are-now-searchable-on-google/
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Ars Technica: US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says. “xAI apparently lost a government contract after a tweak to Grok’s prompting triggered an antisemitic meltdown where the chatbot praised Hitler and declared itself MechaHitler last month.”
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TechCrunch: Co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI departs the company. “Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI startup, announced his departure from the company on Wednesday in a post on X. Babuschkin led engineering teams at xAI and helped build the startup into one of Silicon Valley’s leading AI model developers just a few years after it was founded.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/14/techcrunch-co-founder-of-elon-musks-xai-departs-the-company/
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Engadget: X plans to show ads in Grok chatbot’s answers. “According to the Financial Times, X owner Elon Musk told advertisers in a live discussion that his company would let marketers pay to appear in suggestions from Grok. He said that after making Grok the ‘smartest, most accurate AI in the world,’ the company is now focusing on paying ‘for those expensive GPUs.’” I wonder how big a step it […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/10/engadget-x-plans-to-show-ads-in-grok-chatbots-answers/
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Mashable: Grok Imagine’s ‘Spicy’ mode lacks basic guardrails for sexual deepfakes. “Grok Imagine, a new generative AI tool from xAI that creates AI images and videos, lacks basic guardrails against sexual content and deepfakes. Even when specific celebrities are mentioned by name, Grok Imagine will readily produce sexual deepfakes.”
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Ars Technica: xAI workers balked over training request to help “give Grok a face,” docs show . “Dozens of xAI employees expressed concerns—and many objected—when asked to record videos of their facial expressions to help “give Grok a face,” Business Insider reported. BI reviewed internal documents and Slack messages, finding that the so-called project ‘Skippy’ was designed to help […]
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Engadget: Grok’s AI chatbot now includes companions for you to ‘romance’. “Grok, xAi’s chatbot most famous for going on an antisemitic spree last week, has now added the ability to perform as a synthetic companion for your enjoyment. Elon Musk announced the new feature, available to paid subscribers, which will take the form of animated characters Ani and Rudy. Both are distinctly not safe […]
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Simon Willison: Grok 4 Heavy won’t reveal its system prompt. . “Grok 4 Heavy is the “think much harder” version of Grok 4 that’s currently only available on their $300/month plan. Jeremy Howard relays a report from a Grok 4 Heavy user who wishes to remain anonymous: it turns out that Heavy, unlike regular Grok 4, has measures in place to prevent it from sharing its system prompt.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/18/simon-willison-grok-4-heavy-wont-reveal-its-system-prompt/
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Engadget: Grok sure seems antisemitic after its recent update. “Last Friday, Elon Musk said that X’s built-in chatbot had been ‘significantly’ improved. ‘You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions,’ Musk said on X. As it turns out, X users are noticing a difference. Over the last couple days, Grok seems to have taken a hard turn toward antisemitism.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/12/engadget-grok-sure-seems-antisemitic-after-its-recent-update/
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Associated Press: Musk’s latest Grok chatbot searches for billionaire mogul’s views before answering questions. “The latest version of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok is echoing the views of its billionaire creator, so much so that it will sometimes search online for Musk’s stance on an issue before offering up an opinion.”
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Know Your Meme: Grok Will Stancil Rape Threats / Lawsuit. “The Grok Will Stancil Rape Threats / Lawsuit refers to a July 2025 controversy about Grok, the AI language model run by xAI and Twitter / X, detailing how to break into left-wing political commentator Will Stancil’s house and sexually assault him in response to X user prompts.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/10/know-your-meme-grok-will-stancil-rape-threats-lawsuit/
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ComicBook: Twitter AI Grok Can’t Correctly Identify Movies (And It’s a Problem). “Any time a clip of a movie or TV show goes viral online, there is typically someone in the comments asking Grok for the name of the project. In many instances, Grok says something wildly incorrect and sometimes not even within the same genre.”
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AFP: Grok shows ‘flaws’ in fact-checking Israel-Iran war: study. “Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok produced inaccurate and contradictory responses when users sought to fact-check the Israel-Iran conflict, a study said Tuesday, raising fresh doubts about its reliability as a debunking tool.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/30/grok-shows-flaws-in-fact-checking-israel-iran-war-study-afp/
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Musk Watch: Musk calls his multi-billion-dollar AI chatbot “embarrassing” and “very dumb”. “Soon after Grok’s initial rollout in December 2023, conservatives began complaining that the chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI startup was infected with left-wing thought. Despite training Grok as an explicitly anti-woke large language model, Musk agreed with its critics….
But after a year and a […]
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The Conversation: Grok’s ‘white genocide’ responses show how generative AI can be weaponized. “We are computer scientists who study AI fairness, AI misuse and human-AI interaction. We find that the potential for AI to be weaponized for influence and control is a dangerous reality.”
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The Conversation: Grok’s ‘white genocide’ responses show how generative AI can be weaponized. “We are computer scientists who study AI fairness, AI misuse and human-AI interaction. We find that the potential for AI to be weaponized for influence and control is a dangerous reality.”
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New York Times: Elon Musk’s A.I. Company Faces Lawsuit Over Gas-Burning Turbines. This link goes to a gift article. “Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, which runs the Grok chatbot, is facing a legal challenge led by the NAACP over air pollution from its supercomputer facility in Memphis.”
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404 Media: Elon Musk Claimed the Art This Man Painstakingly Created Was Generated by Grok. “Over the weekend, Elon Musk shared Grok altered photographs of people walking through the interior of instruments and implied that his AI system had created the beautiful and surreal images. But the underlying photos are the work of artist Charles Brooks, who wasn’t credited when Musk shared the […]
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TechCrunch: xAI’s promised safety report is MIA. “Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has missed a self-imposed deadline to publish a finalized AI safety framework, as noted by watchdog group The Midas Project.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/25/techcrunch-xais-promised-safety-report-is-mia/
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CNBC: Grok’s ‘white genocide’ auto responses show AI chatbots can be tampered with ‘at will’. “Grok on Wednesday began responding to user queries with false claims of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa. By late in the day, screenshots were posted across X of similar answers even when the questions had nothing to do with the topic.”