Poland to Report Musk's Chatbot Grok to EU
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A French prosecutor has opened a criminal investigation into X and Elon Musk, on accusations of “creating bias in France’s democratic debate.” This comes after Musk’s AI company,
Grok’s “offensive remarks” and “erratic and full of expletive-laden rants” on social media X could be a “major infringement” of the bloc's content moderation rulebook, the Digital Services Act, Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski wrote in the letter addressed to EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen.
While responding to user queries, Grok earlier this week mocked Polish officials, including Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and made lewd remarks about their personal lives and appearance
Last week, multiple outlets reported that Musk had fired Omead Afshar, the head of Tesla’s sales and manufacturing operations in North America and Europe. The alleged expulsion (Tesla never confirmed what had happened,
The Grok incident “highlights the very real risks the [EU’s] AI Act was designed to address,” said Italian Social-Democrat European Parliament lawmaker Brando Benifei, who led work on the EU’s AI rulebook that entered into law last year.
When Tesla chief executive Elon Musk asked his followers on the social platform X last week whether it was time to create a new political party, 80 percent answered “yes.” Wall Street seems to disagree.
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This is the smartest AI in the world,” Musk said. He did not mention the chatbot’s viral posts praising Hitler and calling itself “MechaHitler.”