Threat to society! Elon Musk’s Grok AI accused of spreading misinformation

Elon Musk purchased Twitter one random day, decided to rename it as ‘X’ and convert it into an ‘everything app’. Not long after his purchase, the Tesla CEO added a host of features to the social media site, including his own version of ‘free speech’ mechanisms. The latest of Musk’s additions is X’s Grok AI chatbot being able to respond to users’ queries directly in comments or replies, taking it right into a boiling controversy.

At present, X is a battleground of narratives. Indian users, meanwhile, are leveraging Grok’s capability to the maximum by asking it to verify or expand on countless posts, sometimes resulting in debatable and polarising answers.

Allegations of User Data Training

Amid this chaos, come allegations. Many have claimed that Musk’s AI was trained on messages and data of Twitter users, which would explain its tone of conversation and even the occasional abusive replies it generates.

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Grok’s Unique But Divisive Tone

Further, Grok’s replies are extremely different from other bots like ChatGPT or Perplexity as Musk’s AI uses an almost human-like sarcastic voice, which again points to the fact that it has extensively been trained on user’s messages and comments.

Concerns About Reliability and Bias

Amid such accusations is the fact that if Grok has indeed been trained on data from users, it cannot be counted as reliable. While it does cite sources from where it generates its answers, the replies it has generated have been labelled as biased.

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Grok AI: A Threat to Society?

Meanwhile, countless X users have debated in the comments of countless posts that the chatbot is a threat to the fabric of society as its answers are often heavy with sarcasm, appear directly insulting, or even straightforward hurtful.

From politics to daily life, Grok appears to be answering any and everything but according to the data it has been trained on, which allegedly makes it ‘misinformed’ and a ‘threat’ as per current social media talks.