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Elon
Musk’s
social
media
platform
X
started
testing
AI-generated
news
summaries
powered
by
Grok
in
early
April.
The
feature
has
a
disclaimer
that
Grok
“can
make
mistakes,”
and
it’s
made
quite
a
few
of
them.
Grok’s
AI
news
summaries
have
replaced
X’s
trending
section
for
paying
users.
It
works
by
creating
headlines
and
one-paragraph
explanations
of
breaking
news,
using
the
latest
tweets
on
X.
However,
Grok
seems
to
have
a
hard
time
understanding
jokes,
context,
and
misinformation.
One
of
Grok’s
alleged
selling
points
is
its
real-time
access
to
information
on
X.
That
capability
is
on
full
display
with
these
AI-generated
news
summaries,
however,
it
seems
to
have
a
few
bugs.
Musk
also
claims
Grok
to
be
an
“anti-woke”
chatbot,
allegedly
free
of
bias
like
other
AI
chatbots.
Accuracy
seems
to
be
a
larger
issue
than
bias
in
this
case.
Here
are
the
strangest
mistakes
Grok
has
made
at
interpreting
the
news
so
far.
For
clarity,
experts
were
not
baffled
by
the
solar
eclipse
that
occurred
earlier
in
April.
Grok
seemed
to
get
tripped
up
by
all
the
jokes
about
the
event.
The
small
forward
for
the
Golden
State
Warriors,
Klay
Thompson,
rarely
misses
shots
on
the
court.
However,
when
he
does,
basketball
fans
might
refer
to
it
as
a
“brick.”
Grok
failed
to
understand
the
reference,
and
somehow
got
the
NBA
star
tied
up
in
a
fake
“brick-vandalism”
spree
after
Thompson’s
poor
performance
went
viral.
This
was,
yet
another,
joke
that
was
deeply
misunderstood.
Once
again,
context
is
key,
but
Grok
doesn’t
really
have
context
for
jokes.
When
O.J.
Simpson
passed
in
April,
Grok
seemed
to
misunderstand
jokes
about
O.J.
Simpson’s
death.
This
appears
to
be
another
viral
joke
about
O.J.’s
death
that
got
turned
into
a
news
headline
and
summary
by
Grok.
At
least
we
know
Grok
is
reading
some
quality
content.
However,
someone
should
tell
it
The
Onion
is
satire.
At
one
point,
Grok
started
producing
some
pretty
dangerous
misinformation
about
Iran
striking
Israel
with
heavy
missiles.
Grok
got
this
info
from
accounts
spreading
misinformation
in
April.
Ah
yes.
Quite
a
juicy
story
indeed.
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