Elon Musk’s Grok is a risky experiment in AI content moderation


Musk has been a champion of AI without much intervention, vocally criticising tools from OpenAI and Alphabet Inc’s Google as too 'woke.' — Reuters

A deluge of bizarre computer-generated images swept Elon Musk’s social platform X last week - including violent, offensive and sexually suggestive content. In one, Trump piloted a helicopter as the World Trade Center buildings burned in the background. In others, Kamala Harris wore a bikini, and Donald Duck used heroin. Amidst the online furore, Musk posted, "Grok is the most fun AI in the world!”

By Friday, the shocking images had lost some of their novelty. The volume of posts about Grok was peaked at 166,000 posts on Aug 15, two days after the image generation features were announced, according to the data firm PeakMetrics.

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