Five secretaries of state penned a letter to Elon Musk on Monday morning, asking him to fix his AI chatbot after it sent false election information to millions of Americans. Musk must “immediately implement changes to X’s AI Search Assistant, Grok, to ensure voters can have accurate information in this critical election year,” the letter read.
A mere few hours after Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race, Grok indicated that Kamala Harris was not eligible to be on the 2024 presidential ballot in nine states. According to the letter, Grok told users, “The ballot deadline has passed for several states for the 2024 election. It then listed the nine supposed states: Alabama, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington.
In reality, the deadline had not passed in any of the states. If it had, Harris could not have taken Biden’s place on the ballot.
Steve Simon, the secretary of …