X's Grok chatbot calls Trump 'pedophile' and 'Psycho', promotes racist claims about Harris
According to research by Global Witness shared with WIRED, Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok, integrated into X, generated claims that Donald Trump is a 'pedophile', 'wannabe dictator', and 'Psycho', and appeared to invent racist tropes about Vice President Kamala Harris. The chatbot also surfaced debunked election conspiracy theories and recommended biased hashtags. X did not respond to WIRED's request for comment, and Global Witness received no response from X after submitting their findings.
- Date it happened
- 2024-07-18
- Organisation involved
- X
- Product, system or model
- Grok
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