Conspiracy theories and other anti -semi -symptic or racist tweets do not seem to discourage the US government. As The Verge reports, Elon Musk’s new company, XAI, approved a contract with the United States Ministry of Defense to provide her generative assistant to AI. Amount of treatment? 200 million dollars.
Announced on Monday, July 14 by the multimillionaire company, this association is now part of a new program called “Grok for Government”. He responds to the desire of the Trump administration to modernize and adopt artificial intelligence on a larger scale.
The implementation is not the only one that has been retained by the Government. After Xai’s announcement, the Department of Defense (DOD) hastened to specify that he also listened to Anthrope, Google and OpenAi to “accelerate” in AI and respond “to crucial challenges for national security,” according to a statement.
Tensions and outflows of the road
This association with Grok questions. The relations between the US president and Elon Musk have deteriorated in recent months. However, both The men had approached During the last presidential campaign and Republican billionaire, after its inauguration, to Elon Musk, the management of a special commission dedicated to the identification of economy sources within the administration.
After putting an end to his mission, in May, the South African origin contractor publicly criticized the great budgetic bill of Donald Trump, accusing him of digging the public debt. The president and the businessman gave themselves a very lively exchange on social networks and for public statements, before Elon Musk apologizes for some of his messages.
In parallel, Grok multiplies the landslides. The last example last week, when the chatbot, in some of its answers, praise Adolf Hitler, denounced “anti-white stereotypes” in X or the “disproportionate” representation of the Jews in Hollywood. Since then, Xai apologized for these extremist and abusive messages, announcing that he has corrected the instructions they had taken, according to the company, to these road trips.
According to several experts, the new version of Chatbot, Grok 4, presented on July 9, also raises a problem. She It would be regularly based on The positions of his boss, Elon Musk, to respond to Internet users trying to make publications in the social network X.
Source: BFM TV
