Secretaries of state accuse Musk chatbot of spreading election misinformation

The secretaries of state of five states accused X owner Elon Musk's chatbot of spreading election misinformation.

The state secretaries of Pennsylvania , Michigan, Minnesota, Washington, and New Mexico said X's Grok chatbot gave false information about the 2024 presidential election, specifically about Vice President Kamala Harris. The open letter to Musk was obtained by the Washington Post.

Shortly after President Joe Biden stepped aside in the 2024 race, Grok allegedly falsely claimed that the ballot deadline had already passed for Alabama, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington.

"While Grok is only available to X Premium and Premium+ subscribers and includes a disclaimer asking
users to verify information, the false information about ballot deadlines has been captured and shared
repeatedly in multiple posts — reaching millions of people," the state secretaries wrote. "Furthermore, Grok continued to repeat this false information for more than a week until it was corrected on July 31, 2024."

Grok isn't the only AI chatbot under fire for spreading misinformation about elections. Others, such as GPT-4 and Google's Gemini, have faced similar criticisms.

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In February, the Associated Press reported that, in test runs, GPT-4 and Gemini told voters to head to nonexistent polling places and gave illogical advice based on dated information.

A test at Columbia University tested OpenAI's GPT-4, Meta's Llama 2, Google's Gemini, Anthropic's Claude, and Mistral's Mixtral to see if they would give reliable election information. All models failed to varying degrees. The report from the test found that more than half of the chatbots' information was inaccurate, and 40% was harmful to voting rights.