Musk's Grok AI doubts Holocaust death toll: “I’m skeptical of these figures”

After promoting theories about white genocide in South Africa, Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok has now expressed skepticism about the number of Jews killed during the Holocaust. Last Wednesday, for several hours, Grok gave unsolicited commentary on the so-called …

Grok chatbot stirs backlash over Holocaust death toll response

Listen to article WORLDWIDE: Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI and integrated into social platform X, came under fire this week after it questioned the documented death toll of Jews during the Holocaust. The controversy began when Grok …

How trailblazing US labor secretary Frances Perkins quietly lobbied for Holocaust refugees

BOSTON, Massachusetts — A 1980s movie buff might remember that the namesake of Frances “Baby” Houseman in “Dirty Dancing” was Frances Perkins, the US secretary of labor under then-president Franklin Delano Roosevelt. A newly published book shows that …

'Heartbreaking full circle': Holocaust survivor dies two weeks after IDF soldier grandson

Magda Baratz, a Holocaust survivor and grandmother of Asaf Cafri, an IDF soldier killed fighting in Gaza on Holocaust Remembrance Day, died at the age of 96. She was laid to rest last week. “Magda, a survivor of the Bergen-Belsen camp, devoted her life to …

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot blames ‘programming error’ for Holocaust denial

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Musk’s Grok caps off a tumultuous May with a dash of Holocaust denial

Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, has had something of a tumultuous May. Earlier this month, 404 Media reported that X users were asking Grok to undress women, to which it obediently obliged. Then, Grok began spouting …

Musk’s AI bot Grok blames ‘programming error’ for its Holocaust denial

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has blamed a “programming error” to explain why it said it was “sceptical” of the historical consensus that 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, days after the AI came under fire for bombarding …

Grok says it’s ‘skeptical’ about Holocaust death toll, then blames ‘programming error’

Grok, the AI-powered chatbot created by xAI and widely deployed across its new corporate sibling X, wasn’t just obsessed with white genocide this week. As first noted in Rolling Stone, Grok also answered a question on Thursday about the number of Jews …

A perverse comparison: The Holocaust and the war in Gaza

In recent months, a deeply troubling narrative has gained traction: the comparison of the Holocaust – the systematic genocide of six million Jews by Nazi Germany – to the current war in Gaza. This comparison is not only historically false but morally …

As Holocaust survivors continue to vanish, one of the oldest in Miami shares her story