twitters chatbot, Grok, spread misinformation following President Biden's announcement he'd not seek re-election

[butters]

When users asked the artificial intelligence tool whether a new candidate still had time to be added to ballots, Grok gave the incorrect answer.

Finding the source – and working to correct it – served as a test case of how election officials and artificial intelligence companies will interact during the 2024 presidential election in the US amid fears that AI could mislead or distract voters. And it showed the role Grok, specifically, could play in the election, as a chatbot with fewer guardrails to prevent the generating of more inflammatory content.

A group of secretaries of state and the organization that represents them, the National Association of Secretaries of State, contacted Grok and X to flag the misinformation. But the company didn’t work to correct it immediately, instead giving the equivalent of a shoulder shrug, said Steve Simon, the Minnesota secretary of state. “And that struck, I think it’s fair to say all of us, as really the wrong response,” he said.

no surprises, really, given musk's presence

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...&cvid=b20bdebb2b03476f97095d5f6f51e3f3&ei=163

no doubt the next decade or so will see masses of new legislation/guard-rails introduced as the world learns to live with AI

 

[rgraham666]

Artificial stupidity strikes again.

 

[lovecraft68]

Outraged I tell you! Don't they know only the left can spread disinformation!

 

[butters]

Artificial stupidity strikes again.

it spread misinformation but the main takeaway from this is that musk ignored the elected officials pointing out it was giving out the WRONG information

 

[butters]

Outraged I tell you! Don't they know only the left can spread disinformation!

^^ such a ridiculous bore

 

[butters]

the officials were alarmed because although that incident wasn't 'high-stakes', future answers to more important questions could be.

The secretaries took their effort public. Five of the nine secretaries in the group signed on to a public letter to the platform and its owner, Elon Musk. The letter called on X to have its chatbot take a similar position as other chatbot tools, like ChatGPT, and direct users who ask Grok election-related questions to a trusted nonpartisan voting information site, CanIVote.org.

The effort worked. Grok now directs users to a different website, vote.gov, when asked about elections.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...&cvid=b20bdebb2b03476f97095d5f6f51e3f3&ei=163