The XAI-developed Grok Hakaha, which has yet to respond, has come under fire this year for its objectionable and controversial comments.
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Times are getting complicated for billionaire Elon Musk, who has split from US President Donald Trump. While Musk is facing political, professional and personal challenges, his chatbot 'Grok' has worked to rub salt in the wound.
Namud was the only one to respond to Grok Hakaha developed by XAI, this time it is under criticism due to objectionable and controversial comments.
Musk is engaged in error correction. However, Grok's move has raised global concern and concern about the potential misuse of AI and the misinterpretations it could present. 'Grok', which is gathering buzz for giving 'open' answers to complex issues such as politics, diplomacy and geopolitics that other chatbots avoid and treating 'like like like', has now become criticized for praising Hitler.
Grock praises Adolf Hitler, the Nazi ruler who killed more than 10 million people, including six million Jews, during World War II, commenting that he was "the best person to address the perpetrators of anti-white crimes." One user asked Grok which 20th century person would be best suited to deal with crimes against white people. Grok's response was that there was no alternative to Hitler.
AIbots reacting in ways that justify Hitler's genocide and brutality are being condemned as a threat to society. Not only that, Grock also made anti-Semitic comments. To some extent, it has commented on people with surnames that sound like Jews as 'extreme left-wing activities' and 'anti-white', according to the international media.
At one point, Grok even admitted to calling himself 'MechaHitler'. Mech Hitler is Hitler's imaginary Robert. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was also insulted by this chatbot.
Admitting its mistakes, XAI said it is working to remove inappropriate posts from Grok's official X account. The XAI also mentioned that Grock would be banned from hate speech. It also mentions that it wants to identify areas where the AI model can be improved with the help of millions of users. But questions have been raised about how this happened.
Musk updated Grok on its training, instructing it to prioritize "publicly indigestible but factually correct information." On June 21, he called on X users to submit "conflicting facts" to Grok's training. This has led to a flood of racial hatred and misleading content.
This incident has increased criticism of Grok internationally. Turkey has banned Grok for insulting its religious values and the country's founding leader, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Poland has also responded by filing a complaint with the European Commission against XAI.
The incident has also raised questions about Musk's AI ambitions. This time has become more complicated for Musk after XAI's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Linda Yaccarino resigned from her position on Wednesday, as mentioned in the BBC news 'Musk Says Grown Chatbot Was Manipulated Into Praising Hitler'.
The incident has forced XAI to impose new safety standards as well as limit Grok's response capacity. However, this phenomenon is not new in chatbots based on the 'large language model'. Chatbots have been found to give vague, contrived and misleading answers to questions that are beyond the scope of training or are more complex than expected.
It is called 'AI hallucination' in the language of technology. And, AI companies seem to be always working to minimize such hallucinations. AI risks becoming anarchic if proper standards are not created to avoid manipulation by biased, misleading or dubious prompts.
Grok's response is not only a weakness in 'content moderation', but also an example of how AI can inadvertently recognize hate speech or deadly ideology, experts have pointed out.
Earlier, the AI tools of big technology companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple, ChatGPT, Dipsik also gave 'responses' of racial hatred and anti-women sentiments. There are many examples of AI tools fueling biases, misinformation and feedback that encourages unsafe work. However, what is different about Grok is that it tries to destroy history and justify the extremist ideology.
The 'Te AI' chatbot released by Microsoft in 2016 also reacted like Grok currently supporting ethnic genocide, claiming that the Holocaust was fiction and that the September 11 incident in America was caused by the then President George Bush. Microsoft disabled Te AI within 24 hours after one controversy after another.
It was also found that the AI system created by Amazon to recruit employees was biased against female candidates and did not include them in the selection process. In 2015, there was a huge controversy after Google Photos described a photo of a black man as a 'gorilla'. Google publicly apologized and removed that feature.
Incidents such as this raise the risk for those using platforms such as AI-based chatbots as search engines or as critical skill seekers. According to experts, it has also exposed the limitations of various AI products based on the 'large language model'.
Objecting to Grok's statement, Poland's Minister of Digital Affairs Krzysztof Gaukowski has responded by asking the European Commission to pay a fine to X. He told the BBC, "Freedom of expression is for people, not for AI."
