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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Ben Quinn

Musk’s Grok AI bot falsely suggests police misrepresented footage of far-right rally in London

Protesters clash with police at the junction of Whitehall and Horse Guards Avenue
Protesters clash with police at the junction of Whitehall and Horse Guards Avenue during Saturday’s Unite the Kingdom rally. Grok claimed the location was Trafalgar Square. Photograph: Krisztián Elek/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

The Metropolitan police has had to counter false suggestions by the artificial intelligence on Elon Musk’s X platform that the force passed off footage from 2020 as being from Saturday’s far-right rally in the city.

The claim by the chatbot Grok was in answer to an X user’s query about where and when footage of police clashing with crowds was filmed.

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