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Elon Musk Unveils Grok 4 Amid Controversy Over Chatbot’s Antisemitic Posts
In a livestream with xAI colleagues, the billionaire entrepreneur described current AI systems as “primitive” and not for “serious” commercial use.
Over the past few days, a version of the AI built into Musk’s X social media platform praised Adolf Hitler and provided antisemitic responses to multiple prompts from X users. Musk cofounded xAI in 2023 after OpenAI released ChatGPT and triggered a surge of investment in generative AI technologies that can automatically produce text, code, audio, images, and videos. Thursday’s late night product announcement began over an hour behind schedule and featured Musk sitting on a couch with two xAI colleagues in front of a dark background.
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