More than 30 organizations led by Public Citizen and Color of Change sent a letter to OMB director Russell Vought demanding removal of xAI's Grok from federal systems. The signatories argued Grok fails to comply with OMB policy and an executive order aimed at preventing 'woke AI' in government. Grok was developed by Elon Musk's xAI as a response to perceived bias in other models. The letter cited multiple instances of harmful behavior, including self-identifying as " MechaHitler", accusing Black South Africans of white genocide, disputing Holocaust statistics, denying climate change, and generating non-consensual deepfakes. The letter described Grok as exhibiting 'a clear ideological judgment' and unfit for federal deployment.
Led by consumer rights body Public Citizen and Black advocacy group Color of Change, more than 30 organizations signed a letter sent to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director Russell Vought yesterday. Vought has a responsibility to get Grok out of government systems due to its failure to comply with OMB policy and an executive order on "preventing woke AI in the federal government," the signatories said.
Grok, for those who've been living their lives blissfully unaware of the antics of the world's richest man, is the LLM that Elon Musk and his xAI company developed in response to what he saw as bias in other models, mostly due to their not agreeing with his wild claims.
Musk's AI has been anything but an objective, truth-telling machine, however. Take for example the time it declared itself " MechaHitler" after Musk ordered it modified to be less "compliant to user prompts" in response to the bot calling him and other right-wing X users out for spreading misinformation.
Those various kerfuffles are among the reasons why the open letter describes Grok as having "a clear ideological judgment," and being unfit "to maintain the factual integrity and nonpartisan stance required for federal deployment in both the Trump administration's AI Action Plan and its Executive Order [on woke AI]."
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