In a separate post – which showed a screenshot of the first part of the Grok response – Mr Wishart wrote: “This is a shocking allegation which has totally taken me aback [and is] beyond anything I’ve ever encountered in normal political discourse.”<\/p>\n
Other posts made by Mr Wishart to the Grok chatbot included the questions “is it true you live in Elon Musk’s house” and “can you draw a picture of Elon as a hobbit”.<\/p>\n
This was referring to an appearance Musk made on Joe Rogan’s podcast, where he compared British people to hobbits – the fictional characters from JRR Tolkein’s eponymous novel – in a discussion about illegal immigration and the grooming gang scandal.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday morning, Mr Wishart then shared a post claiming he had received an apology from Grok – posting what appeared to be transcripts of a conversation he had with the chatbot on a separate app.<\/p>\n
However, just as the AI can be prompted to use strong language against a user, it can equally be prompted to generate an apology.<\/p>\n
“When Grok refers to someone as a rape enabler, it is because the language model has been prompted with specific words,” said Max Falkenberg, a data scientist who has researched political polarisation on social media. <\/p>\n
“Grok did not invent” the accusation it levied at Mr Wishart, he added, as “it looks at its training data and it’s trying to predict which words come next”.<\/p>\n
In other words, an AI chatbot generates its replies depending on what it is asked and the data used to create it – which in Grok’s case includes posts made on X.<\/p>\n
At the time of its launch<\/a>, owner Elon Musk said Grok would answer “spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems”.<\/p>\n It has caused controversy in the two years since it has launched, including posts which praised Hitler<\/a> and allegedly making sexually explicit videos of Taylor Swift<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a separate post – which showed a screenshot of the first part of the Grok response –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-245711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}