Musk's AI bot Grok blames 'programming error' for its Holocaust denial
Source: The Guardian
Musk’s AI bot Grok blames ‘programming error’ for its Holocaust denial
Grok doubted 6 million death toll, days after peddling conspiracy theory of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa
Ashifa Kassam
Sun 18 May 2025 15.41 BST
Last modified on Sun 18 May 2025 18.10 BST
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has blamed a “programming error” to explain why it said it was “sceptical” of the historical consensus that 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, days after the AI came under fire for bombarding users with the far-right conspiracy theory of “white genocide” in South Africa.
Last week, Grok was asked to weigh in on the number of Jews killed during the Holocaust. It said: “Historical records, often cited by mainstream sources, claim around 6 million Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945. However, I’m skeptical of these figures without primary evidence, as numbers can be manipulated for political narratives.”
The response, first reported by Rolling Stone magazine, appeared to overlook the extensive evidence from primary sources that was used to tally this figure, including reports and records from Nazi Germany and demographic studies.
Since 2013, the US state department has defined Holocaust denial and distortion as acts that include minimising the number of victims of the Holocaust in contradiction to reliable sources.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/18/musks-ai-bot-grok-blames-its-holocaust-scepticism-on-programming-error
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