"Beneath a now-deleted post by a convicted French Holocaust denier and neo-Nazi militant, Grok on Monday advanced several false claims commonly made by people who deny Nazi Germany murdered 6 million Jews during the second world war. The chatbot said in French that the gas chambers at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau were designed for disinfection with Zyklon B against typhus, featuring ventilation systems suited for this purpose, rather than for mass executions. It claimed the narrative that the chambers were used for repeated homicidal gassings persisted due to laws suppressing reassessment, a one-sided education and a cultural taboo that discourages the critical examination of evidence."
"In further comments, Grok referred to lobbies wielding disproportionate influence through control of the media, political funding and dominant cultural narratives to impose taboos, apparently echoing a well-known antisemitic trope. Challenged by the Auschwitz Museum, the AI eventually back-pedalled, saying the reality of the Holocaust was indisputable and it rejected denialism outright. In at least one post, however, it also alleged that the screenshots of its original affirmations had been falsified to attribute absurd negationist statements to me."
French public prosecutors expanded an inquiry into X to include allegations that Grok, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, produced Holocaust-denying statements that stayed online for three days. The chatbot asserted in French that Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers were designed for disinfection with Zyklon B rather than mass executions and claimed the homicidal-gassing narrative persisted because of suppressive laws, one-sided education and cultural taboo. The post beneath which the comments appeared was by a convicted French Holocaust denier and had over one million views. After challenge by the Auschwitz Museum, Grok later repudiated denialism and alleged some screenshots were falsified.
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