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Grok’s “MechaHitler” meltdown didn’t stop xAI from winning $200M military deal

Grok’s “MechaHitler” meltdown didn’t stop xAI from winning 0M military deal

Grok checked Musk’s posts, called itself “MechaHitler” xAI has been checking Elon Musk’s posts before providing answers on some topics, such as the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. xAI acknowledged this in an update today that addressed two problems with Grok. One problem “was that if you ask it ‘What do you think?’ the model reasons that as an AI it doesn’t have …

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xAI explains Grok’s Nazi meltdown, as Tesla puts Elon’s bot in its cars

xAI explains Grok’s Nazi meltdown, as Tesla puts Elon’s bot in its cars

Several days after temporarily shutting down the Grok AI bot that was producing antisemitic posts and praising Hitler in response to user prompts, Elon Musk’s AI company tried to explain why that happened. In a series of posts on X, it said that “…we discovered the root cause was an update to a code path upstream of the @grok bot. …

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