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Why Elon Musk's Grok is kicking up a storm in India


The chatbot has become an "unfiltered and unhinged" digital sensation in India.

Before its launch two years ago, Musk had promised an edgy, unfiltered, 'anti-woke' AI chatbot unlike competitors like OpenAI, Microsoft and Google's models. When the BBC asked Grok who spreads the most disinformation on X, it responded on Thursday: "Musk is a strong contender, given his reach and recent sentiment on X, but I can't crown him just yet." Joyojeet Pal, who studies political use of social media at the University of Michigan, says unlike a politician or celebrity with a set ideology, a chatbot is only partisan if explicitly trained to be or if its data overwhelmingly supports a particular view.

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