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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Vishwam Sankaran

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot blames ‘programming error’ for Holocaust denial

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok, deployed on the tech mogul’s social media platform X, blamed a “programming error” for its “scepticism about Holocaust figures”.

Replying to a query on Thursday about the number of Jews killed by the Nazis during the Second World War, the chatbot arrived at a number of “around 6 million Jews from 1941 to 1945” citing “historical records”.

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