A shocking story was promoted on the “front page” or main feed of Elon Musk’s X on Thursday:
“Iran Strikes Tel Aviv with Heavy Missiles,” read the headline.
This would certainly be a worrying world news development. Earlier that week, Israel had conducted an airstrike on Iran’s embassy in Syria, killing two generals as well as other officers. Retaliation from Iran seemed like a plausible occurrence.
But, there was one major problem: Iran did not attack Israel. The headline was fake.
Even more concerning, the fake headline was apparently generated by X’s own official AI chatbot, Grok, and then promoted by X’s trending news product, Explore, on the very first day of an updated version of the feature.
They got it bumped to the top of google news for a few minutes before someone killed it.
What awesome leadership Lonnie has brought to the birdshit site. No one can deny his greatness now.
I’m so glad half of the nuclear powers are actively planning on integrating Fancy Auto Completers like this one on their systems.
I’m not savvy with the stock market; how will this fiasco affect the X’itter value?
It’s a private company.
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