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Subject: Musk's chatbot spreads right wing lies
Date: 08/05/24 3:48 PM
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Of course.

Leave it to Musk to immediately weaponize AI to spread lies in the service of his right wing bias.

Secretaries of state urge Musk to fix AI chatbot spreading false election info

Within hours of President Biden’s announcement that he was suspending his presidential campaign on July 21, “false information on ballot deadlines produced by Grok was shared on multiple social media platforms,” the secretaries wrote.

Musk launched Grok last year as an anti-“woke” chatbot, professing to be frustrated by what he says is the liberal bias of ChatGPT. In contrast to AI tools built by OpenAI, Microsoft and Google, which are trained to carefully navigate controversial topics, Musk said he wanted Grok to be unfiltered and “answer spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems.”

Many of them are also still beating back the ramifications of widespread false conspiracy theories that plagued the last presidential election. The messages from Grok spurred a public conversation about whether Harris would be a legitimate candidate for president, even though she declared her candidacy well within the necessary state deadlines. Such false assertions are the kind of misinformation that helped fuel widespread beliefs in 2020 that the election was stolen from former president Donald Trump.

Another version of Grok’s false information about ballot deadlines included one telling users that ballots for the coming presidential election were already “locked and loaded.”

Simon said that Musk’s AI chatbot cannot make the argument that it is simply facilitating different voices in the modern-day public square.
“This is a case where the owner of the public square (the social media company itself) is the one who introduced and spread the bad information — and then delayed correcting its own mistake after it knew that the information was false,” he said.

washingtonpost.com - Secretaries state urge musk fix AI chatbot spreading false election info

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