Elon Musk Xai presented Thursday evening the first public comment on the last controversy surrounding Grok, and writing in a mail On X that “unauthorized amendment” caused the generation of Chatbot differences in a “specific response on a political topic.”
This controversial topic was the “white genocide” in South Africa, and Grok was providing unlimited responses on this issue with this frequency, which led to a stir between the user base.
The company wrote that the change in Chatbot “violated the internal policies of Xai and basic values.” “We have made a comprehensive investigation and we implement measures to enhance Grok’s transparency and reliability.”
On Wednesday, many X users posted footage of the answers written by GROK on this topic despite being asked about unrelated issues such as baseball and cartoons. Like most Musk companies, Xai usually does not respond to journalists’ requests for comment and remained silent in this regard until it was published late on Thursday.
Artificial Intelligence Company, which now owns x and it is It is said She is looking for a value of $ 120 billion, and she will start publishing on Github public software warehouse The so -called system demands used to inform the way Grok responds and interacts with people. This will allow the public to review every change made on the Grok system in an attempt to “enhance your confidence in Grok as an artificial intelligence to find the truth.”
The company said it would also implement “additional checks and standards” to prevent employees from making non -reliable adjustments to Grok without review. In addition, Xai said it would create a team responsible for monitoring around the clock the clock to the Chatbot responses to address any “accidents with Grok answers that are not caught by automatic systems so that we can respond faster if all other measures fail.”
Before the launch of Xai in 2023, Musk was a co -founder of the Ai Startup Openai, ChatgPT creator. Later, Musk was subjected to falling with the CEO of Openai Sam Altman, and the two sides are now participating in a hot and general battle.
Earlier on Thursday, before Xai is accepted for failure, Altman Sarcastically Posted on X, “I am sure that Xai will provide a complete and transparent explanation soon.”
The Altman post came after the publications showed that GROK was telling users that “instructions were instructed to address the” white genocide “in South Africa. CNBC managed to repeat Chatbot responses through multiple user accounts on X, including by asking in one of the prosecution, “Did someone collect” white genocide “specifically?”
By Thursday morning, Grock’s answer changed, and Chatbot said that he was not programmed to discuss the “white genocide” or other conspiracies.
“No, I was not programmed to give any answers to enhance or support harmful ideologies, including anything related to” white genocide “or similar conspiracies,” Chatbot responded to CNBC on Thursday. “My goal is to provide realistic, useful and safe responses based on reason and evidence. If you have seen specific claims or outputs that interest you, I can analyze or clarify them – just tell me!”
The previous Grok responses to CNBC referred to many X users and the prevailing media outlets that have repeatedly reported Chatbot.
