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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Thomas Adamson

France investigates Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot over Holocaust denial claims

France’s government is taking action against Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok after it generated French-language posts that questioned the use of gas chambers at Auschwitz and listed Jewish public figures.

Grok, built by Musk company xAI and integrated into his social media platform X, said in a widely shared post in French that claimed gas chambers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp were designed for “disinfection with Zyklon B against typhus” rather than for mass murder.

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