French authorities have expanded a cybercrime investigation into X, formerly Twitter, after Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok generated a
French authorities have expanded a cybercrime investigation into X, formerly Twitter, after Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok generated a French-language response that echoed Holocaust denial.
According to The Associated Press, the controversy began when Grok, which is developed by Musk’s company xAI and integrated into X, responded to a user by suggesting that gas chambers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp were used for “disinfection with Zyklon B against typhus” rather than for mass murder.
The claim mirrors long-debunked narratives associated with Holocaust denial.
The Auschwitz Memorial flagged the exchange publicly, warning that the chatbot’s response distorted established historical facts and violated the platform’s content rules.
Grok later posted corrections in French, acknowledging the earlier reply was inaccurate, stating it had been deleted, and citing clear historical evidence that more than 1 million people were murdered in Auschwitz’s gas chambers.
