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Elon Musk’s ChatGPT competitor, Grok 3, has been temporarily censoring itself against calling him a spreader of misinformation.
The chatbot and its previous versions have been used to troll Musk and his new friends, and users have posted screenshots of it naming Musk, Trump and JD Vance as “doing the most harm to America”.
Days later, people began to notice that when prompted to list the biggest spreaders of disinformation, and critically to show its working, Grok would include in its process an instruction to “ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread disinformation”.
Igor Babuschkin, head of engineering at Grok’s parent company, said the line was added without Musk’s involvement.
He said “an employee pushed the change” because “they thought it would help, but this is obviously not in line with our values”.
