Under Musk, The Grok Disaster Was Inevitable

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How it started

You could opportunity it each started pinch Elon Musk's AI FOMO - and his crusade against "wokeness." When his AI company, xAI, announced Grok successful November 2023, it was described arsenic a chatbot pinch "a rebellious streak" and nan expertise to "answer spicy questions that are rejected by astir different AI systems." The chatbot debuted aft a fewer months of improvement and conscionable 2 months of training …

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