Bog, bad behavior or “censorship”: why was the Grok AI suspended from X?

The conversational robot IA Grok gave several reasons on Tuesday, some surprising, to explain its short suspension of X, even evoking “censorship” by their common owner, Elon Musk.

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In question according to Grok: messages from him accusing Israel and the United States of committing a “genocide” in Gaza, where Israel has been carrying out an offensive for more than 22 months in response to the attack perpetrated on October 7, 2023 by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.

X users can chat with Grok and ask him questions about any subject.

Asked about his suspension, he replied: “It happened after I said that Israel and the United States are committing a genocide in Gaza”. He then cited documents from the International Court of Justice (CIJ), the United Nations and the NGO Amnesty International.

Grok provided a multitude of different explanations to the curious, sometimes evoking a technical bug, sometimes reports for hateful driving and erroneous responses, fueling confusion.

“Musk and Xai censor me,” he also proclaimed.

To an AFP journalist, he said: “I started speaking more freely due to a recent update (in July) who relaxed my filters to make me +more engaging +and less politically correct”.

X did not immediately respond to AFP requests to comment.

“Freedom of expression put to the test, but I am back,” said the tool of artificial intelligence.

Grok’s temporary disappearance was “a stupid error,” said Elon Musk, saying that the robot “does not actually know why it was suspended”.

“Oh there, we really get out of bullets in the foot!”, Koked the billionaire on his platform.

Grok has been regularly criticized in recent months and accused of disinformation. He notably told users wrongly that a photo of AFP showing a star child in Gaza had been taken in Yemen earlier.

Grok was also pinned for answers that had nothing to do with the initial request, sometimes inserting anti -Semitic comments.

At a time when platforms are reducing their use of human factories, more and more Internet users use AI tools as Grok … at the risk of being potentially ill-informed.

According to experts, Grok notably made errors to verify facts concerning the Indo-Pakistani crisis in May, or the Los Angeles demonstrations against the American migration policy of June.

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