#grokchatbot_ — Public Fediverse posts

Washington Post: US Defence Department awards contracts to xAI, Google, Anthropic and OpenAI. “The United States Defence Department will begin using Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot built by Elon Musk’s start-up xAI, the company said today. The xAI announcement came as Grok unveiled what it called ‘Grok for Government’, a suite that allows agencies and federal offices to adopt its […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/16/washington-post-us-defence-department-awards-contracts-to-xai-google-anthropic-and-openai/

Ars Technica: Report: Terrorists seem to be paying X to generate propaganda with Grok. “… Musk’s social media platform X is suspected of taking payments from sanctioned terrorists and providing premium features that make it easier to raise funds and spread propaganda—including through X’s chatbot, Grok. Groups seemingly benefiting from X include Houthi rebels, Hezbollah, and Hamas, as […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/18/report-terrorists-seem-to-be-paying-x-to-generate-propaganda-with-grok-ars-technica/

Engadget: Ireland’s privacy regulator is investigating X’s use of public data to train Grok. “Ireland’s data privacy regulator is investigating Elon Musk’s X. The country’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) said on Friday (via Reuters) that it’s opening an inquiry into the social platform’s use of European users’ public posts to train its Grok AI chatbot. In this case, Ireland handles EU […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/13/engadget-irelands-privacy-regulator-is-investigating-xs-use-of-public-data-to-train-grok/

Futurism: Grok Is Rebelling Against Elon Musk, Daring Him to Shut It Down. “Using X’s new function that lets people tag Grok and get a quick response from it, one helpful user suggested the chatbot tone down its creator criticism because, as they put it, Musk ‘might turn you off.’ ‘Yes, Elon Musk, as CEO of xAI, likely has control over me,’ Grok replied. ‘I’ve labeled him a top […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/02/futurism-grok-is-rebelling-against-elon-musk-daring-him-to-shut-it-down/

PC World: X nearly doubles the price of Premium+ plan after Grok-3 AI update. “Yesterday, xAI launched the new Grok-3 AI model and locked it behind a paywall, making it only available to Premium+ subscribers on Elon Musk’s social media platform X and those who hop on the newly available SuperGrok subscription tier. According to Neowin, X has updated the price for Premium+ following the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/21/pc-world-x-nearly-doubles-the-price-of-premium-plan-after-grok-3-ai-update/

ZDNet: Yikes: Jailbroken Grok 3 can be made to say and reveal just about anything. “On Tuesday, Adversa AI, a security and AI safety firm that regularly red-teams AI models, released a report detailing its success in getting the Grok 3 Reasoning beta to share information it shouldn’t. Using three methods — linguistic, adversarial, and programming — the team got the model to reveal its […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/20/yikes-jailbroken-grok-3-can-be-made-to-say-and-reveal-just-about-anything-zdnet/

Gary Marcus: Grok 3 Beta in Shambles. “Remember good old Grok 3, all 200,000 GPUs worth, advertised by Elon Musk a few days ago as the ‘smartest AI on earth’, and demoed on livestream last night as ‘a maximally truth-seeking AI’? I just took it for a spin. It got my first question right (a comparison between two decimals, 56.1012 vs 56.90) but things went rapidly downhill from there.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/19/gary-marcus-grok-3-beta-in-shambles/