"Grok's placement on the government website realfood.gov follows uproar over the chatbot's creation of millions of sexualized deepfakes of women and children in late December and its spouting of racist and antisemitic content last summer. Other government agencies are also using the chatbot made by xAI, Musk's AI company, but the prominent placement of Grok on realfood.gov over the weekend appears to be one of the first instances of the federal government pointing online visitors to Musk's chatbot."
"The setup raises questions about how Musk could be benefiting from the government's use of Grok. It's also not clear how the chatbot was trained for a government context, if at all, or if users should take its outputs as government recommendations or endorsements. After Nextgov/FCW on Monday sent the administration questions about the placement of Grok on the site, it was changed so that it no longer called Grok out by name."
The government's realfood.gov dietary guidelines portal directed users to Elon Musk's Grok chatbot, a service that has produced sexualized deepfakes and promoted racist and antisemitic content. Other federal agencies also use Grok, and the prominent link raised concerns about whether Musk benefits from government referrals and how the model was trained for government use. The site was altered to stop naming Grok explicitly but the portal still routes to grok.com. Visitors can only ask a few questions before being prompted to sign up. Grok has free and paid tiers, can be unavailable due to high demand, and uses interactions to train models unless users enable private modes or opt out in account settings.
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