French authorities have expanded an investigation into Elon Musk’s platform X to include “Holocaust-denying comments” generated by its AI chatbot Grok, said the Paris prosecutor’s office.
A Grok X post in French said 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.”
The “Holocaust-denying comments shared by the artificial intelligence Grok, on X, have been included in the ongoing investigation conducted by the cybercrime division of the Paris prosecutor’s office, and the functioning of the AI will be analyzed within this framework,” according to the prosecutor’s office.
In July, French authorities launched an investigation into claims that X, formerly known as Twitter, skewed its algorithm to allow “foreign interference,” with the probe examining the actions of the company and its senior managers.
The French Human Rights League (LDH) and anti-discrimination group SOS Racisme have also said they would file complaints over the Grok post for “disputing crimes against humanity.”
