As millions adopt Grok to fact-check, misinformation abounds


Author: Nilesh Christopher, Valerio Pepe\
Published on: 11/07/2025 | 00:00:00

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California Governor Gavin Newsom posted two photographs on X. X users immediately turned to Grok, Elon Musk’s AI, to fact-check the veracity of the image. For that, they tagged @grok in a reply to the tweet in question. Chatbots, including ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, are large language models (LLMs) that learn to predict the next word in a sequence by analysing enormous troves of data from the internet. The outputs of chatbots are reflections of the patterns and biases in the data it is trained on, which makes them prone to factual errors and misleading information called “hallucinations” For Grok, these inherent challenges are further complicated because of Musk’s instructions that the chatbot our analysis of the 434 replies that tagged Grok in Newsom’s post found that the majority of requests, nearly 68 percent, wanted Grok to either confirm whether the images Newsom posted were authentic or get context about National Guard deployment. Notably, a few users lashed out because Grok had made the correction, and wouldn’t endorse their flawed belief. Grok was called on 2.3 million times in just one week to answer posts on X. Data accessed by Al Jazeera through X’s API shows how deeply this behaviour has taken root. X is keeping people locked into a misinformation echo chamber, in which they’re asking a tool known for hallucinating, to fact-check for them. Grok incorrectly blamed a trans pilot for a helicopter crash in Washington, DC. He claimed the assassination attempt on Trump was partially staged. Echoed anti-Semitic stereotypes of Hollywood and misidentified an Indian journalist. Grok vs Community Notes For years, social media users benefited from context on information they encountered online with interventions such as labeling state media or introducing fact-checking warnings. After buying X in 2022, Musk ended those initiatives and loosened speech restrictions. X piloted the “AI Note Writer” enabling developers to create AI bots to write community notes alongside human contributors on misleading posts. This human-AI system works better than what human contributes can manage alone, researchers say. X is trying to bridge this gap by supercharging the pace of creation of contextual notes. Grok gave inaccurate results on the death toll of the Holocaust, which it said was due to a programming error. In June, Grok cited data from government sources and Reuters. Musk has also chided Grok for not sharing his distrust of mainstream news outlets. X deleted the inflammatory posts later that day, and xAI removed the guidelines to not adhere to political correctness from its code base. Researchers expressed surprise over the reintroduction of the directive for Grok 4 to be “politically incorrect” despite this code having been removed from its predecessor, Grok 3.

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Just over 100 days into his term, Carney is cutting public sector while ramping up military spending. He’s launched a whole-of-government review, pushing deep cuts, deregulation, and a $9 billion boost to defense.

Canada is headed for a neoliberal austerity nightmare.

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#canada #cdnpoli #economy

Sixty years ago, NASA’s Mariner 4 captured groundbreaking views of the Red Planet, leading to a steady stream of advances in the cameras used to study other worlds. In 1965, NASA’s Mariner 4 mission brought Mars into American living rooms, where TV sets showed fuzzy black-and-white images of a cratered landscape. The spacecraft took 21 […]

Yemen to keep attacking ships in Red Sea until Israeli operation in Gaza continues tass.com/world/1988117

#BRICS has declared the #Gaza Strip an “inseparable part of the occupied Palestinian Territory” and called for a unified Palestinian governance under the Palestinian Authority.

BRICS also called for the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza and all parts of the occupied Palestinian Territory, as well as the release of all hostages and detainees held in violation of international law.

In a joint declaration, the bloc reaffirmed its support for the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and an independent State of Palestine. The statement also endorsed full Palestinian membership at the United Nations.

The member states expressed “grave concern” over #Israel’s continued military operations in Gaza and the blocking of humanitarian assistance, strongly condemning the use of #starvation as a weapon of war.

Brazil’s president says the world must act to stop what he describes as an Israeli “ #genocide” in Gaza as leaders from 10 emerging BRICS nations gathered in Rio de Janeiro.

“We cannot remain indifferent to the genocide carried out by #Israel in Gaza, the indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians and the use of hunger as a weapon of war,” President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told leaders from China, India and other nations on Sunday.

July 7, 2025

A language model built for the public good | ETH Zurich


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ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM marks a milestone in open-source AI and multilingual excellence.


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Israel Exhumes Graves, Steals Bodies from Khan Younis Cemetery, Gaza Ministry Says #Palestine qudsnen.co/israel-exhumes-grav…

Giro de 180 ° de Trump respecto al caso Epstein: de “desclasificaré todo” a “no existe tal lista”


La Administración Trump, que prometió revelar todo sobre el caso Epstein incluso desde antes de llegar a la Casa Blanca, acaba de dar un ‘sorprendente’ giro en su forma de abordar el asunto 🧐

ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure

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La transformación de Borrell ante ‘Israel’: de canciller pusilánime a tuitero radical


Un tal Josep Borrell es la nueva sensación de redes sociales con sus tuits contra Netanyahu. ¿A alguien le suena ese nombre, el de Josep Borrell? ¿A qué se dedicaría antes de ser ‘influencer’? 😅 😬

NASA astronaut Shannon Walker retired July 10, concluding a career that spanned 38 years, including 30 years of federal service and more than 21 years as an astronaut. During two spaceflights, she spent 330 days in orbit, contributing to hundreds of scientific experiments and technology demonstrations for the benefit of humanity. Walker served as a […]

China marks 88th anniversary of whole-nation resistance against Japanese aggression eng.chinamil.com.cn/CHINA_2091…

hmmm
so if I were to sell my current phone and change it for an used one that has more rom support, should I focus on...

  • Android mods (Lineage, Graphene, etc. - I'll probably get an used pixel) (100%, 11 votes)
  • Postmarket OS - whatever they have on their list and I can buy for dirt cheap (0%, 0 votes)
11 voters. Poll end: never

Between 1946 and 1990, over 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste were dumped by multiple European countries in the international waters of the Abyssal Plains in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean, at a depth of over 4,000 metres. These barrels contain waste embedded in asphalt or cement.
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Meanwhile, some of these barrels are broken …

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"Thoughts on #JerrySeinfeld saying he doesn't care about #Palestine?"

"Jerry #Seinfeld is literally a #pedophile who dated a high schooler when he was 38
I don't think anyone should be looking towards him for a #moral #compass. But checks out that he would support a #genocide"

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in reply to Rose

Dear Ya'Quib (😆),

Remember God had said there would be enmity between the serpent's seed and the woman's seed.

If the serpent's seed (Cain) would die so soon--and the line ended--then what God had proclaimed would be would then not be.
So God marked Cain and kept him from death not for the sake of Cain, but for the sake of God keeping faithful to His own word of what would be: an enmity between the seeds.

"I have been a wanderer, even a trembling one, in the earth, and it hath been -- every one finding me doth slay me."
What people does this sound like, btw?

This isn't just a curse on Cain himself, but on his discendants--just as covenants with Abraham or Jacob are not only with an individual--or how descendants are referred to by a forefather ("Jacob's trouble", "Esau I have hated," "David will have an everlasting kingdom," etc.).

Sincerely,
Someone on the toilet who has to go do an errand now

P.S. Rose, the Mark of the Beast was that of keeping under the approval of the church (dragon's tongue, lamb's horns)--minding in thoughts and deeds (forehead and hand)--under threat of excommunication, anathema, etc. (no longer able to sell, buy, regardless of whether a peasant or a nobleman, etc.).

P.P.S.
I am typing this before leaving for a day of errands, so I won't be writing on it more today, at least. Everyone have a good day 🎉

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@monarchist @truthbait it's astonishing to me that some people exist in this alternate reality where israel actually wants to "defeat hamas" and end the hostilities. if hamas just surrenders and returns the hostages, then israel will stop the carpet bombing and total takeover of gaza... but wait, that wouldn't be good for the greater israel project would it. so they actually don't want this and will label anyone as "hamas" to continue the genocide and the land grab


If Ham-ass simply surrenders, problem solved.

Today in Labor History July 11, 1947: the Exodus 1947 left France for Palestine carrying 4,500 Jewish Holocaust survivors with no legal immigration certificates for Palestine. The British boarded the ship in international waters and sent the Jews to refugee camps in Europe. Over 100,000 Jews tried to illegally immigrate to Palestine as part of Aliyah Bet. More than half of these immigrant ships were stopped by British patrols, with most of the Jews (roughly 50,000) being sent to internment camps in Cyprus, Palestine, and Mauritius. Over 1,600 of them drowned at sea and only a few thousand reached Palestine. Of the 64 vessels that sailed in the Aliya Bet, Exodus 1947 was the largest, with 4,515 passengers. Many historians believe that the ordeal of the Exodus 1947 played a major role in building international sympathy for the plight of Holocaust survivors and support for a Jewish state in Palestine.

The Jewish paramilitary group, Haganah, bought the Exodus 1947 for Aliyah Bet activities from a wrecking yard precisely because of its dilapidated and dangerous condition. They believed that the British would see the danger to its passengers and allow it through their blockade. However, the British boarded the ship anyway and a battle ensured. An American Jew was clubbed to death. Two passengers died from gunshots and several British sailors were hospitalized. And the passengers were deported. In retaliation, the militant Zionist groups Irgun and Lehi blew up Central Police HQ in Haifa on September 29, 1947. Ten people died and 54 were injured, including 33 Brits, 4 Arab policemen, an Arab woman and a 16-year-old were killed.

Leon Uris wrote about it in his 1958 novel, “Exodus.”

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