{"id":18853,"date":"2025-05-18T18:37:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T16:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/musks-ai-bot-grok-blames-programming-error-for-its-holocaust-denial\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T18:37:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T16:37:57","slug":"musks-ai-bot-grok-blames-programming-error-for-its-holocaust-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/musks-ai-bot-grok-blames-programming-error-for-its-holocaust-denial\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk\u2019s AI bot Grok blames \u2018programming error\u2019 for its Holocaust denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grok doubted 6 million death toll, days after peddling conspiracy theory of \u2018white genocide\u2019 in South Africa<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has blamed a \u201cprogramming error\u201d to explain why it said it was \u201csceptical\u201d of the historical consensus that 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, days after the AI came under fire for bombarding users with the far-right conspiracy theory of \u201cwhite genocide\u201d in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Grok was asked to weigh in on the number of Jews killed during the Holocaust. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/grok\/status\/1923015824228614649\">It said<\/a>: \u201cHistorical records, often cited by mainstream sources, claim around 6 million Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945. However, I\u2019m skeptical of these figures without primary evidence, as numbers can be manipulated for political narratives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/may\/18\/musks-ai-bot-grok-blames-its-holocaust-scepticism-on-programming-error\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cd6bab13050c473700728d0f80d36ae2782427bc\/243_0_2425_1940\/master\/2425.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=64200f32bd9ffd2cb944f9355eba1b67\" title=\"Musk\u2019s AI bot Grok blames \u2018programming error\u2019 for its Holocaust denial\" \/>Grok doubted 6 million death toll, days after peddling conspiracy theory of \u2018white genocide\u2019 in South Africa<br \/>\nElon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has blamed a \u201cprogramming error\u201d to explain why it said it was \u201csceptical\u201d of the historical consensus that 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, days after the AI came under fire for bombarding users with the far-right conspiracy theory of \u201cwhite genocide\u201d in South Africa.<br \/>\nLast week, Grok was asked to weigh in on the number of Jews killed during the Holocaust. It said: \u201cHistorical records, often cited by mainstream sources, claim around 6 million Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945. However, I\u2019m skeptical of these figures without primary evidence, as numbers can be manipulated for political narratives.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grok doubted 6 million death toll, days after peddling conspiracy theory of \u2018white genocide\u2019 in South Africa Elon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has blamed a \u201cprogramming error\u201d to explain why it said it was \u201csceptical\u201d of the historical consensus that 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, days after the AI came under &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/musks-ai-bot-grok-blames-programming-error-for-its-holocaust-denial\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Musk\u2019s AI bot Grok blames \u2018programming error\u2019 for its Holocaust denial<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18853"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}