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A quarter of European organisations have banned Elon Musk’s generative AI chatbot Grok — a much higher proportion than ChatGPT or Gemini.

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, has come under fire for repeatedly spreading far-right conspiracy theories about South Africa and expressing skepticism about facts regarding the Holocaust. Social media users quickly caught on to the bot's strange behavior, and the company's explanation fell flat.

AI-powered chatbots created by Meta, Google and OpenAI aren't "packaging up" information in a neutral way, but are instead passing data through a "set of filters and values that are built into the system," Mulligan said. Grok's breakdown offers a window into how easily any of these systems can be altered to meet an individual or group's agenda.

The latest version of Grok is promoting fringe climate viewpoints in a way it hasn’t done before, observers say.

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, says an “unauthorized modification” led its Grok chatbot to post unsolicited claims on social media about the persecution and “genocide” of white people in South Africa.

Responding to our query, Grok admitted that its "accuracy depends on available online data, which may include errors or biases."

Anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spent the start of her Memorial Day weekend arguing with Grok, the AI chatbot on the social platform X, after it said that she doesn’t act like a Christian.