A bipartisan group of lawmakers has sent a letter to Elon Musk's xAI after the platform's chatbok, Grok, used antisemitic language in different posts earlier this month.
The letter, reported by Axios, was sent by more than a dozen lawmakers. The group was led by Democratic Senator Jacky Rosen and Republican counterpart James Lankford.
They criticized xAI for not taking "reasonable measures" to prevent the chatbot from making such statements, adding that the tool was "too eager to please and be manipulated" in response to the backlash.
"xAI's failure to take reasonable measures to mitigate against its AI models from engaging in hate speech is reckless, unacceptable, and antisemitic," reads a passage of the letter's post. It was also signed by Democratic Sens. John Hickenlooper, Jon Ossoff, Elissa Slotkin, Maggie Hassan, Kirsten Gillibrand, Catherine Cortez Masto, Ben Ray Lujan, Chris Van Hollen, Richard Blumenthal, Tim Kaine, Brian Schatz and Gary Peters. Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman and GOP colleague Chris Smith also signed it.
Musk's company deleted the posts on X after Grok began praising Adolf Hitler, referred to itself as MechaHitler and made other antisemitic comments when responding to queries from users.
"We are aware of recent posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts. Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X," the company said on July 8.
"xAI is training only truth-seeking and thanks to the millions of users on X, we are able to quickly identify and update the model where training could be improved," it added. The rhetoric surfaced after Musk announced changes the week prior. Axios noted that Musk has sought to influence the way the AI program responds to divisive questions so they are more of his liking.
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