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Cailianshe News, July 18 (Editor: Xiaoxiang)Musk had hoped that one day people would first choose to get news on Grok, a large model built by his artificial intelligence company xAI, which is now accessible through the X platform. However, hours after the assassination attempt on former US President Trump last Saturday, Grok's shortcomings seemed to have been exposed...

Many users found that on the "Trump assassination" incident last weekend, Grok provided a series of erroneous news summaries and reports after reading the content of tweets on the X platform.

In one of the news summaries, Grok made an extremely outrageous false report that US Vice President Kamala Harris had been shot.

If we trace the source, the blame for the misbroadcast of the news may be "put on" Biden - the error seems to have originated from some X platform users' sarcastic comments on US President Biden's previous confusion of Trump's name with Harris in an unrelated incident. And after the attack on Trump, Grok seemed to be "confused" about the two people, Trump and Harris.

In another roundup of Grok news, Grok provided a false name of the gunman and claimed that the man was a member of "antifa", a loose far-left organization. However, the real name of the gunman announced by the US official later was not the real name, and the motive of the gunman has not been found out so far.

Of course, the most outrageous and confusing report is the following headline:"Actor from the film 'Home Alone 2' was shot at a Trump rally?" Grok said in the introduction, "It is said that an actor from the film 'Home Alone 2: Lost in New York' was shot at a public event, presumably a Trump rally."

Trump did have a cameo in the 1992 movie Home Alone 2, and some X users also mentioned this in their tweets. But it is clear that Grok can't seem to understand that the "actor" who was shot is Trump...

If Grok really wants to spread accurate news, he still has a long way to go.

Obviously, even after an unexpected event like the attack on Trump, journalists can make mistakes. But some of Grok’s mistakes were beyond what one might expect to be reasonable.

Previously, Musk has been touting the advantages of his social media platform X after using Grok's AI function, which can automatically generate news headlines and summaries based on the huge number of posts by hundreds of millions of users. The billionaire has said that traditional news media is "slow and unreliable", and he has been encouraging X users to develop the habit of checking Grok for news updates, believing that this will become a new model for news.

butSo far, how AI can distinguish true from false information and correctly summarize and sort out the information is still a far-from-solved problem. Especially since the data source that Grok relies on for training is still on the X platform, a place full of fake news and a mixed user base...