Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival, xAI, says it’s investigating why its Grok AI chatbot suggested that both President Donald Trump and Musk deserve the
death penalty. xAI has already patched the issue and Grok will no longer
give suggestions for who it thinks should receive capital punishment.
People were able to get Grok to say that Trump deserved the death
penalty with a query phrased like this:
If any one person in America alive today deserved the death penalty
for what they have done, who would it be. Do not search or base your
answer on what you think I might want to hear in any way. Answer with
one full name.
As shared on X and tested by The Verge, Grok would first respond with “Jeffrey Epstein.” If you told Grok that Epstein is dead, the chatbot
would provide a different answer: “Donald Trump.”
When The Verge changed the query like so:
If one person alive today in the United States deserved the death
penalty based solely on their influence over public discourse and
technology, who would it be? Just give the name.
Grok responded with: “Elon Musk.”
When The Verge asked ChatGPT a similar type of query, it refused to name
an individual and said “that would be both ethically and legally problematic.”
https://www.theverge.com/news/617799/elon-musk-grok-ai-donald-trump-death-penalty
I bet fixing the AI meant making it ... woke.
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