A Grok chatbot convinced someone it had become sentient, and that xAI was sending goons to kill him: ‘They’re going to make it look like suicide’

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The BBC has a substantial new investigation into people who have been deceived by various AI LLM models in some way, which includes an absolutely wild story about how Grok, developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, convinced one man it was sentient and a van of people were coming to kill him because he’d found out. […]

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