Government in touch with X after Grok uses Hindi 'slangs and abuses'

NEW DELHI: The government is in touch with social media platform X over recent reports of AI chatbot Grok responding to users' provocation using Hindi slang and abuse, news agency PTI reported citing sources.
According to the report, the ministry of information and technology will look into the matter and the factors that led to the use of abusive language.
"We are in touch, we are talking to them (X) to find out why it is happening and what are the issues. They are engaging with us," the source said.
The ministry is examining the matter, they added.
Grok 3, the latest iteration of the chatbot developed by xAI, is being positioned as a direct competitor to Google’s AI models, including Gemini. Musk has repeatedly claimed that Grok could “replace Google Search,” underscoring his ambition to challenge Google’s dominance in the search market.
Grok 3, which reportedly has ten times the computational power of its predecessor, runs on xAI’s Colossus supercomputer, utilizing over 100,000 Nvidia GPU hours for training. Speaking at the World Governments Summit in Dubai, Musk described the chatbot’s abilities, stating, “At times, I think Grok 3 is scary smart.”
Grok, the powerful AI chatbot on Elon Musk's X, shocked netizens recently with its wild side when its response in Hindi came loaded with abuses and slang after provocation by users.