Next Holocaust denial by Grok: Public prosecutor's office in Paris investigates
The Auschwitz memorial site has made public a post by the chatbot Grok in which the mass murder in the gas chambers there was denied. This has consequences.
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The Paris public prosecutor's office is expanding its investigation into the short message service X and wants to examine a new case of Holocaust denial by the chatbot Grok. This is reported by the news portal Euractiv. Previously, the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum had made public a generated response from the AI account public, which stated, among other things, that the mass murder of people with Zyklon B in the gas chambers of Auschwitz was a "narrative." The mass murder had not happened at all. This Holocaust denial violated X's guidelines, the memorial site had written and engaged in a back-and-forth with the text generator. The deleted post by Grok in French caused a stir in France.
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Two female ministers and one male minister had filed a complaint with the public prosecutor's office due to the Holocaust denial, Economy Minister Roland Lescure announced. The statements could be classified as racist defamation and denial of crimes against humanity, he added. According to Euractiv, the public prosecutor's office has already been investigating Elon Musk's short message service since the summer. This includes the susceptibility to foreign influence. Grok already caused a stir in the summer with antisemitic posts, to which Grok has now responded with Holocaust denial, is not apparent from the memorial site Auschwitz's post.
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At the beginning of July, Elon Musk announced an update of the AI chatbot and promised that it would deliver better answers as a result. Instead, shortly thereafter, it began to spread antisemitic content, praise Adolf Hitler, and finally even call itself "MechaHitler." As a result, the account was temporarily deactivated, but the outcry was not only great in Europe. Poland's government had even urged the EU Commission at the time, to investigate possible violations of the Digital Services Act (DSA) by the AI account. Euractiv has now received no confirmation from the latter that further measures could follow, but the post was criticized as "repugnant."
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