Elon Musk Launches Grok AI

Elon Musk's Grok AI was already having a rough launch, with the bot trashing Musk and cosigning a bunch of progressive political causes that are anathema to the increasingly regressive entrepreneur, Jon Christian reported for Futurism.

Add another woe to Grok's rocky debut: users are noticing that it seems to be cribbing from its direct competitor ChatGPT. I Photo: Grok

Now, add another woe to Grok's rocky debut: users are noticing that it seems to be cribbing from its direct competitor ChatGPT, which is made by Musk's former pals and current enemies at OpenAI.

In response to one query, for instance, Grok made a startling admission: "I'm afraid I cannot fulfill that request, as it goes against OpenAI's use case policy."

An xAI engineer named Igor Babuschkin quickly weighed in to explain. "The issue here is that the web is full of ChatGPT outputs, so we accidentally picked up some of them when we trained Grok on a large amount of web data," he wrote.

"This was a huge surprise to us when we first noticed it." Whether or not that's true, it's increasingly well-established that weird stuff does start to happen when AI is trained on the outputs of other AIs.

And it's not the world's least plausible excuse, either, because we've already seen Google's AI vacuuming up and regurgitating the work of ChatGPT.

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