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Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up. (mashable.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A shocking story was promoted on the "front page" or main feed of Elon Musk's X on Thursday:

"Iran Strikes Tel Aviv with Heavy Missiles," read the headline.

This would certainly be a worrying world news development. Earlier that week, Israel had conducted an airstrike on Iran's embassy in Syria, killing two generals as well as other officers. Retaliation from Iran seemed like a plausible occurrence.

But, there was one major problem: Iran did not attack Israel. The headline was fake.

Even more concerning, the fake headline was apparently generated by X's own official AI chatbot, Grok, and then promoted by X's trending news product, Explore, on the very first day of an updated version of the feature.

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[–] ChairmanMeow 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As CEO he is ultimately responsible for his platform. So yes, in the end it's his responsibility. It's why he gets paid the big bucks.

[+] [email protected] -24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, it's a bit like government. Its only his responsability if it is no one elses responsability. Like, they can have the most corrupt gabinets, most presidents do not resign/abdicate, whatever the word is.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, it's a bit like government.

No it's not.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ok, you just downvote and say no, but no explanation given. In my gov several cases of corruption arised during the last couple of years, and way more in the past. They affect high ranking ministers, and yet the oresident does not resign. Same with companies, they get paid the most, do the least, claim it is vecause they have "lots of responsabilities" but still never pay the price

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Corporations are completely authoritarian, while most governments are not, or at least not completely. If there really is a "rogue engineer", Musk can very easily fire them. Even if there was, it's his responsibility to organize a company in such a way that this cannot happen, with people having oversight over other people.

He is very clearly failing to do any of that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

but no explanation given

You didn't explain, so why should I? I did see you made things up.