Grok, the chatbot created by Elon Musk’s xAI and popular on his social media platform Mass shooting today at Bondi Beach in Australia.
Gizmodo pointed out Several posts where Grok misidentified the viewer – 43 year old Ahmed Al Ahmed – who disarmed one of the gunmen, and it called into question the authenticity of the videos and photographs that captured Al Ahmed’s activities.
Chatbot in one post Misidentified man in a photo as an Israeli hostage, and brought to another post Irrelevant information about Israeli military’s treatment of PalestiniansIn another post, this claimed A “43-year-old IT professional and senior solutions architect” named Edward Crabtree was the man who actually disarmed a gunman.
It appears that Grok is correcting some of its mistakes. at least a post Reportedly claimed that a video of the shooting actually shows Cyclone Alfred “on reassessment” has been corrected.
and later chatbot Al Ahmed’s identity acceptedWriting that “the misconception stems from viral posts mistakenly identifying him as Edward Crabtree, possibly due to a reporting error or a joke referencing a fictional character.” (The article under consideration appeared on A largely non-functional news site This may be AI-generated.)
