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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jakub Krupa

Musk’s Grok AI bot generates expletive-laden rants to questions on Polish politics

The Grok AI made its comments after reports it had been given new instructions to speak more directly.
The Grok AI made its comments after reports it had been given new instructions to speak more directly. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has responded to Polish users’ questions about Polish politics with erratic and expletive-laden rants about the country’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, his political career, and personal life.

In a series of posts – often picking up language from users or responding to their goading – Grok repeatedly abused Tusk as “a fucking traitor”, “a ginger whore” and said the former European Council president was “an opportunist who sells sovereignty for EU jobs”.

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