Musk pressured, OpenAI exec joins Anthropic [Video]

Five secretaries of state—Steve Simon of Minnesota, Al Schmidt of Pennsylvania, Steve Hobbs of Washington, Jocelyn Benson of Michigan and Maggie Toulouse Oliver of New Mexico—are planning to send a letter to Elon Musk, urging him to make immediate changes to Grok, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot native to X (formerly known as Twitter).

The secretaries of state took this action after Grok provided users with inaccurate information about the upcoming presidential election. Shortly after President Joe Biden announced that he would be dropping out of the 2024 presidential race, the chatbot incorrectly informed users that the ballot deadline had passed for several states, making it impossible for Vice President Kamala Harris to replace Biden.

The secretaries argued that voters need accurate information, and Grok’s dissemination of inaccurate details, …