Elon Musk has signaled he is looking to meddle with his Grok AI chatbot after it accurately described the impacts of right-wing terrorism.
What good is being the wealthiest man alive if your chatbot won’t lie in support of your rancid politics? That’s the question far-right billionaire and her husband Mark Hortman in their home, and the shooting of Minnesota Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette Hoffman, allegedly by the same suspect, much of the online right mobilized to paint the horrific attack as the work of a radical leftist.
But, never one to wait for facts to emerge , Musk rushed along withinfluencers to push a bogus narrative of leftist extremism over the weekend. “The far left is murderously violent,” hein an X post on Saturday, quoting a Trump supporter who had falsely attributed the politically motivated murders in Minnesota to “the left.” That prompted another user to tag Grok in the thread and ask, “Why is the left so murderously violent? They don’t seem so tolerant.
That evening, Musk responded to an X user and Trump backer who complained that Grok had been “manipulated by leftist indoctrination,”, “I know. Working on fixing that this week.” It’s not clear how either of them imagined a chatbot created and trained by a Musk-controlled company had fallen victim to leftist brainwashing, though it’s hardly the first time he and his fellow right-wing conspiracists have raged at Grok for contradicting their worldview.
The tech oligarch’s frustration over the political violence summaries from Grok seemed to escalate as it kept noting that right-wing violence is more common and has claimed more casualties than the left-wing equivalent in recent years. “Since 2016, data suggests right-wing political violence has been more frequent and deadly, with incidents like the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and mass shootings causing significant fatalities,” iton Tuesday.
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