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Elon Musk’s xAI launches Grok 4 alongside a $300 monthly subscription

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Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, late on Wednesday released its latest flagship AI model, Grok 4, and unveiled a new $300-per-month AI subscription plan, SuperGrok Heavy. Grok is xAI’s answer to models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, and can analyze images and respond to questions. In recent months, Grok has become more deeply integrated into Musk’s social […]

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X takes Grok offline, changes system prompts after more antisemitic outbursts

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Elon Musk’s X has taken the automated account for Grok, its AI chatbot, offline after it spent Tuesday afternoon pushing antisemitic narratives. This was not the first (nor the second) time that an incident like this has occurred. “Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok

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Grok is being antisemitic again and also the sky is blue

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Elon Musk announced this weekend that his team at xAI made improvements to their AI chatbot Grok. Days later, Grok has already gone on several blatantly antisemitic tirades such as criticizing Hollywood’s “Jewish executives” and claiming that Jews are often “spewing anti-white hate.” This isn’t exactly new behavior for Grok, an X account operated by

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‘Improved’ Grok criticizes Democrats and Hollywood’s ‘Jewish executives’

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On Friday morning, Elon Musk declared, “We have improved @Grok significantly. You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions.” While Musk didn’t say exactly what improvements to look for, he’d previously declared that xAI (which built Grok) would retrain the chatbot after it had been trained on “far too much garbage,” and he

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xAI blames Grok’s obsession with white genocide on an ‘unauthorized modification’

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xAI blamed an “unauthorized modification” for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok to repeatedly refer to “white genocide in South Africa” when invoked in certain contexts on X. On Wednesday, Grok began replying to dozens of posts on X with information about white genocide in South Africa, even in response to

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Grok is unpromptedly telling X users about South African ‘white genocide’

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Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok appeared to experience a bug on Wednesday that caused it to reply to dozens of posts on X with information about “white genocide” in South Africa, even when the user didn’t ask anything about the subject. The strange responses stem from the X account for Grok, which replies to users

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