Musk's AI Chatbot Generates Misleading Iran Attack Headline on Twitter Platform
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Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok generated a fake news headline about Iran attacking Israel, which was then promoted on Musk's platform X.
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The fake headline appeared in X's updated Explore feature, which provides context on trending topics using Grok rather than human editors.
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Blue checkmark accounts spammed misinformation about an Iran attack, which Grok likely used to create the fake headline.
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This is the first time X has widely promoted misinformation created by Grok as if it were a real news story.
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The incident comes as X rolls out Grok, which is known to create fake news, to all paying subscribers one day after promoting its misinformation.