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A shocking story was promoted on the "front page" or main feed of Elon Musk's X on Thursday:

"Iran Strikes Tel Aviv with Heavy Missiles," read the headline.

This would certainly be a worrying world news development. Earlier that week, Israel had conducted an airstrike on Iran's embassy in Syria, killing two generals as well as other officers. Retaliation from Iran seemed like a plausible occurrence.

But, there was one major problem: Iran did not attack Israel. The headline was fake.

Even more concerning, the fake headline was apparently generated by X's own official AI chatbot, Grok, and then promoted by X's trending news product, Explore, on the very first day of an updated version of the feature.

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[-] [email protected] 181 points 3 months ago

People who deploy AI should be held responsible for the slander and defamation the AI causes.

[-] [email protected] 100 points 3 months ago

Slander is spoken. In print, it's libel.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago

Get me pictures of Spiderman!

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Parker, why does Spider-Man have seven fingers in this photo?!

[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Why I imagine Xitter lawyers arguing that was it was neither spoken nor "printed", they can't be charged?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Well if you read OpenAI's terms of service, there's an indemnification clause in there.

Basically if you get ChatGPT to say something defaming/libellous and then post it, you would foot the legal bill for any lawsuits that may arise from your screenshot of what their LLM produced.

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