Musk Wants Grok AI To “Rewrite The Entire Corpus Of Human Knowledge” Authored by Jesse Coghlan via CoinTelegraph.com, Elon Musk says his artificial intelligence company xAI will retrain its AI model, Grok, on a new knowledge base free of βgarbageβ and βuncorrected dataβ β by first using it to rewrite history.Β In an X post on Saturday, Musk said the upcoming Grok 3.5 model will have βadvanced reasoningβ and wanted it to be used βto rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors.β He said the model would thenΒ retrainΒ on the new knowledge set, claiming there was βfar too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data.β Source:Β Elon MuskΒ Muskβs latest fight against βwokeβ Musk has long claimed that rival AI models, such as ChatGPT from OpenAI, aΒ firm he co-founded, are biased and omit information that is not politically correct. For years, Musk has looked to shape products to be free from what he considers to be damaging political correctness and has aimed to make Grok what he calls βanti-woke.β He also relaxed Twitterβs content and misinformation moderation when he took over in 2022, which saw the platform flooded with unchecked conspiracy theories,Β extremist contentΒ and fake news, some of which was spread by Musk himself. Musk aimed to fight the tide of misinformation by implementing a βCommunity Notesβ feature, allowing X users to debunk or add context to posts that show prominently under offending posts. Criticism levelled at Grokβs retraining Muskβs post attracted condemnation from his critics, including from Gary Marcus, an AI startup founder and New York University professor emeritus of neural science who compared the billionaireβs plan to a dystopia. βStraight out of 1984,β MarcusΒ wroteΒ on X. βYou couldnβt get Grok to align with your own personal beliefs so you are going to rewrite history to make it conform to your views.β Source:Β Gary Marcus Bernardino Sassoli deββ Bianchi, a University of Milan professor of logic and science philosophy,Β wroteΒ on LinkedIn that he was βat a loss of words to comment on how dangerousβ Muskβs plan is. βWhen powerful billionaires treat history as malleable simply because outcomes donβt align with their beliefs, weβre no longer dealing with innovation β weβre facing narrative control,β he added. βRewriting training data to match ideology is wrong on every conceivable level.β Muskβs call for βfactsβ brings conspiracy theories, falsehoods As part of his effort to overhaul Grok, Musk called on X users to share βdivisive factsβ to train the bot, specifying they should be βpolitically incorrect, but nonetheless factually true.β The replies saw a variety of conspiracy theories and debunked extremist claims, including Holocaust distortion, debunked vaccine misinformation, racist pseudoscientific claims regarding intelligence and climate change denial. Tyler Durden Mon, 06/23/2025 – 13:20
Musk Wants Grok AI To “Rewrite The Entire Corpus Of Human Knowledge”
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