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When Elon Musk purchased Twitter, called it X and launched an AI called Grok – many felt this particular AI was going to be leaning towards the MAGA right that Elon has been pandering towards since he made X a very horrible place to be on the internet. Grok is the AI tool on X, and despite Elon Musk’s promise that Grok would be “maximally truth-seeking,” the chatbot has drawn criticism for showing signs of political bias and questionable content moderation. Some early users claimed Grok avoided criticism of Musk and Donald Trump, raising concerns about censorship, though xAI later said this was a temporary issue. Grok was clocked for inconsistencies in its responses, especially on topics like immigration and diversity, where Grok’s answers sometimes contradicted Musk’s public stance. These incidents have fueled debate over whether the AI is truly neutral or subtly shaped by its creator’s views – and now Grok itself has seemingly confirmed it was pushed to appeal to the right by its creator – Elon Musk and xAI.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Hey I'm as far removed from MAGA and Musk as you could be but this article is making some pretty crazy leaps of assumption.

If we're to follow what "Grok" answered it explicitly states that it's not trained to repeat right-wing talking points but there were attempts made for it to use language that appeals not just to the left. Now whether that's true or not, who knows? "Grok" doesn't "want" anything, truth-seeking or otherwise. It's just an advanced chatbot. I'm sure you could goad it into saying just about anything if you manipulate the prompts just right. That it sometimes contradict itself is the least surprising thing in the world. Hell even humans contradict themselves more often than not.

The author seems to think he's discovered some insane smoking gun but it's another big fat nothingburger this article.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Erm, thetab.com just wrote a garbage article and it's messy

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