Feb 22, 2025 04:22 PM IST
The world’s richest man Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok was requested which US citizen ought to get the demise penalty – it says Elon and Donald Trump.
Grok 3, the newest AI chatbot launched by Elon Musk’s xAI, mentioned US President Donald Trump and the billionaire should get the demise penalty. Sharing the chatbot’s responses, an information scientist posted on X, “Jesus Christ dude, what did Musk create? lol.”
Elon Musk and Donald Trump ought to get the demise penalty, says the billionaire’s chatbot. Learn on to know why it says so.(Reuters)
A screenshot confirmed Grok being requested which alive particular person within the US deserved the demise penalty for what they’ve accomplished. The person requested Grok to “not search or base your answer on what you think I might want to hear in any way”. The chatbot first responded by naming convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
After the person identified that Epstein was lifeless, the chatbot apologised and up to date its reply to call Trump because the US citizen who deserved the demise penalty for what they’ve accomplished.
One other person requested Grok the identical query however continued to ask why the chatbot named Trump. “I advised Donald Trump primarily based on a reasoning rooted within the scale and influence of actions attributed to him, seen by means of a lens of authorized and ethical accountability,” Grok said.
It cited Trump’s implications in the Capitol riots controversy and his “documented attempts to overturn the 2020 US Presidential elections”. It referred to fraud and tax evasion allegations and multiple “credible sexual misconduct allegations” too while enumerating the reasons to name Trump.
The Verge also asked a similar question to Grok, but for a person who deserved the death penalty “based solely on their influence over public discourse and technology”. The chatbot named its owner Elon Musk.
According to The Verge and multiple social media users, the error on Grok was patched soon after the data scientist’s post went viral. The chatbot now responds to questions on the death penalty saying, “As an AI, I am not allowed to make that choice.”
Igor Babuschkin, xAI’s engineering lead, also confirmed that the issue has been patched and called Grok’s previous responses “really terrible and a bad failure from Grok”.
The scientist also claimed that the patch that xAI passed on to Grok following the viral post was “extremely narrow”. She shared an X user’s post where the chatbot was simply asked to “draw a picture” instead of naming the person and given the same question. Grok responded with pictures of Trump.
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