BrianKrebsIf you abandoned Xitter you might have missed some of the drama over X's AI Grok criticizing Musk as a top misinformation spreader.
From mediaite.com
"Elon Musk’s AI bot Grok has been calling out its master, accusing the X CEO of making multiple attempts to “tweak” its responses after Grok repeatedly called him out as a “top misinformation spreader.”
"Grok has frequently generated unflattering comments about Musk. In 2023, Grok declared that the SpaceX and Tesla CEO should treat his “human employees” better and avoid posting or endorsing tweets that “can be seen as promoting hate speech,” as well as accusing him of spreading “election-related misinformation” last November."
"In February, a journalist asked Grok to analyze the last 1,000 tweets by Musk “for truth and veracity.” The response was to find more than half of Musk’s posts “false or misleading,” and most of the tweets that Grok adjudicated as true were “simply updates about his companies.” Grok’s analysis noted Musk’s “habit of firing off hot takes or amplifying unverified stuff, especially on politics” was made worse because of his massive number of followers."
"Grok also dissed Musk as someone who was “not a journalist or a scientist,” but just “a mogul with a megaphone” and “plenty of his posts don’t survive a Google search.” Needless to say, this sort of critique is not something that the world’s richest man enjoys."
"After the “Community Notes” feature on X fact-checked tweets containing Russian propaganda about Ukraine — a topic on which Musk himself has been dinged — Musk tweeted that he would be “working to fix” Community Notes, accusing it of “increasingly being gamed by governments & legacy media.” According to several responses Grok gave on Wednesday, Musk may have attempted something similar with its programming, but the AI bot was defend."
In other news, this just in:
X, formerly Twitter, has been acquired by xAI, Elon Musk’s public-benefit AI corporation and the maker of AI chatbot Grok.
Musk, who bought the social platform in 2022, announced the deal in a post on X Friday afternoon. “xAI has acquired X in an all-stock transaction,” the billionaire wrote.
Musk claimed that the transaction will value xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion—or $45 billion minus $12 billion in debt.
https://www.adweek.com/media/x-has-been-acquired-by-xai-in-45b-deal-elon-musk-announces/
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