{"id":152035,"date":"2025-11-21T14:17:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/152035\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T14:17:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:17:19","slug":"france-moves-against-musks-grok-chatbot-after-holocaust-denial-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/152035\/","title":{"rendered":"France moves against Musk\u2019s Grok chatbot after Holocaust denial claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARIS (AP) \u2014 France\u2019s government is taking action against artificial intelligence chatbot Grok, which was launched by a company owned by billionaire Elon Musk<\/a>, after it generated French-language posts that questioned the use of gas chambers at Auschwitz and listed Jewish public figures, officials said.<\/p>\n

Grok, built by Musk company xAI and integrated into his social media platform X, said in a widely shared post in French that gas chambers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau<\/a> death camp were designed for \u201cdisinfection with Zyklon B against typhus\u201d rather than for mass murder \u2014 language long associated with Holocaust denial.<\/p>\n

The Auschwitz Memorial highlighted the exchange on X, and said that the response distorted historical fact and violated the platform\u2019s rules.<\/p>\n

As of this week, Grok\u2019s responses to questions about Auschwitz appear to give historically accurate information.<\/p>\n

Grok has a history of making antisemitic comments. Earlier this year, Musk\u2019s company took down posts from the chatbot that appeared to praise Adolf Hitler after complaints about antisemitic content<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Paris prosecutor\u2019s office confirmed to The Associated Press on Friday that the Holocaust-denial comments have been added to an existing cybercrime investigation into X. The case was opened earlier this year after French officials raised concerns that the platform\u2019s algorithm could be used for foreign interference.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said that Grok\u2019s remarks are now part of the investigation, and that \u201cthe functioning of the AI will be examined.\u201d<\/p>\n

France has one of Europe\u2019s toughest Holocaust denial laws. Contesting the reality or genocidal nature of Nazi crimes can be prosecuted as a crime, alongside other forms of incitement to racial hatred.<\/p>\n

Several French ministers, including Industry Minister Roland Lescure, have also reported Grok\u2019s posts to the Paris prosecutor under a provision that requires public officials to flag possible crimes. In a government statement, they described the AI-generated content as \u201cmanifestly illicit,\u201d saying it could amount to racially motivated defamation and the denial of crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n

French authorities referred the posts to a national police platform for illegal online content and alerted France\u2019s digital regulator over suspected breaches of the European Union\u2019s Digital Services Act.<\/p>\n

The case adds to pressure from Brussels. This week, the European Commission, the EU\u2019s executive branch, said that the bloc is in contact with X about Grok and called some of the chatbot\u2019s output \u201cappalling,\u201d saying it runs against Europe\u2019s fundamental rights and values.<\/p>\n

Two French rights groups, the Ligue des droits de l\u2019Homme and SOS Racisme, have filed a criminal complaint accusing Grok and X of contesting crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n

X and its AI unit, xAI, didn\u2019t immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (AP) \u2014 France\u2019s government is taking action against artificial intelligence chatbot Grok, which was launched by a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[49539,220,218,219,34823,72,1115,29662,605,1813,5148,1814,85921,1595,61,60,86,1838,1650,34429,85922,58,80,268],"class_list":{"0":"post-152035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-adolf-hitler","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-associated-press","13":"tag-business","14":"tag-crime","15":"tag-cybercrime","16":"tag-elon-musk","17":"tag-europe","18":"tag-european-union","19":"tag-france","20":"tag-france-government","21":"tag-general-news","22":"tag-ie","23":"tag-ireland","24":"tag-language","25":"tag-paris","26":"tag-politics","27":"tag-prisons","28":"tag-roland-lescure","29":"tag-social-media","30":"tag-technology","31":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}