X users treating Grok like a fact-checker spark concerns over misinformation

Some users on Elon Musk’s X are turning to Musk’s AI bot Grok for fact-checking, raising concerns among human fact-checkers that this could fuel misinformation. Earlier this month, X enabled users to call out xAI’s Grok and ask questions on different things. The move was similar to Perplexity, which has been running an automated account on X to offer a similar experience. Soon after xAI created Grok’s automated account on X, users started experimenting with asking it questions. Some people in markets including India began asking Grok to fact-check comments and questions that target specific political beliefs. Fact-checkers are concerned about using Grok — or any other AI assistant of this sort — in this manner because the bots can frame their answers to sound convincing, even if they are not factually correct. Instances of spreading fake news and misinformation were seen with Grok in the past. In August last year, five state secretaries urged Musk to implement critical changes to G ... Read full article.