The chatbot Grok, offered by xAI and available on Elon Musk's X, has called President Donald Trump "the most notorious criminal" in Washington, reported Newsweek on Monday.
It's not the first time the highly promoted artificial intelligence-managed chatbot has veered off the center line while offering users a wealth of support in a wide range of projects.
The online portal for Grok promotes it as "your truth-seeking AI companion for unfiltered answers with advanced capabilities in reasoning, coding, and visual processing."
But it has been a bumpy road. In mid-July, Grok went off-script and into a bizarre series of posts praising Hitler, along with other posts about breaking into a home and committing sex crimes.
The Grok account on X later posted, "First off, we deeply apologize for the horrific behavior that many experienced."
The post related a series of code adjustments that were intended to eliminate responses like that from happening again. That problem happened just a short time after Musk posted about significant improvements to the AI chatbot.
Newsweek reported that the new incident involving the comment about Trump came as Grok responded to questions about crime in Washington.
Grok reportedly arrived at its "notorious" characterization of the president because of the convictions handed down against him in a business records lawsuit going back to the 2016 campaign, allegations Trump has denied.
Since the foundation of Grok is artificial intelligence, or intelligent coding, it's reasonable to theorize that its responses are based, and some might say skewed, by everything from training data and system prompts to coding updates or adjustments — all of which are initially managed by humans.
On Monday, Grok announced on X that its account had been briefly suspended for posting content that included "extremist views, including antisemitic remarks, violating X's rules," adding that xAI has apologized and solved the problem, and that the account is back online.
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