How Elon Musk's 'truth-seeking' chatbot lost its way

[Brenda]

(Title should read "How Elon Musk's "truth-seeking" chatbot is coded to be a racist, sexist lying shit" )

Frustrated by what he saw as the “political correctness” of ChatGPT, Elon Musk told conservative pundit Tucker Carlson two years ago that he planned to create a “truth-seeking AI” that “tries to understand the nature of the universe.” Later that year, he founded an artificial intelligence firm called xAI and released a chatbot called Grok — a word drawn from science fiction that signifies a deep understanding.

But over the past two weeks, Grok committed a string of bizarre blunders that might make it difficult for the AI to gain mainstream credibility. The chatbot’s answers to a wide range of unrelated questions wandered into unprompted digressions about “white genocide” in South Africa, sparking an uproar that the company responded to by deleting Grok’s posts and blaming an unnamed employee for an unauthorized code change. After that, users reported Grok veering into skepticism about the Holocaust, suggesting that its “truth-seeking” radar remained miscalibrated.

On May 14, the chatbot began responding to all kinds of unrelated queries by holding forth on the topic of “white genocide” in South Africa, to users’ bafflement. It’s a theory that holds that the country’s formerly ascendant White minority is being targeted for elimination by its Black majority — a claim the South African-born Musk has helped to popularize via his influential X account. The theory has been rejected as false by courts, government ministers and fact-checkers. Grok’s sudden obsession with it coincided with a push by the Trump administration to justify its controversial move to welcome White South African refugees at a time when the United States is turning away refugees of color from countries around the world.

XAI responded to the ensuing furor by deleting Grok’s tweets and blaming the issue on an “unauthorized modification” to the bot’s code that someone made at 3:15 a.m. that day. The company didn’t specify the culprit or announce any disciplinary response.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/how-elon-musk-s-truth-seeking-chatbot-lost-its-way/ar-AA1FoGTJ?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=235ffd9fd8d54d2a9b10735b762823c6&ei=24

People should not believe anything ANY AI is telling you right now. All of them have agendas, biases or major flaws like lying and hallucinating.