U.S. government gets cheap use of Elon Musk's xAI Grok
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It comes just less than four months after the explosive bust up between Trump and Musk in June, which culminated in a fiery online exchange
This builds upon comments from Zach Whitman, GSA’s chief AI officer, who told FedScoop last month that GSA created a process for approving “families” of AI models and establishing a new AI safety team to evaluate the models for different tasks. This includes a method of red-teaming to test models’ performance.
Workers say they've faced sexually explicit content while xAI has marketed Grok to be deliberately provocative. Experts say the company should be cautious.
As more users on X ask Grok for explanations and input, they continue the cycle, with humans and bots feeding each other distortions, hate, and misogyny. Grok is not only shaped by the world; it is also warping people’s understanding of the world right back.