CTRL+ALT+CENSOR: IT ministry and Elon Musk lock horns over X's AI chatbot Grok
By Pragadish Kirubakaran, Pradeep Damodaran and Neeraja Gopalakrishnan in Media News on Friday, 21st March 2025 at 3:24pm
In a rapidly escalating confrontation, Elon Musk's social media platform, X (formerly Twitter), has locked horns with the Indian government over issues of content regulation and the behaviour of its AI chatbot, Grok.
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The controversy began when Grok, developed by Musk's xAI, responded to user prompts with colloquial Hindi slang, including offensive language. This incident, reported by Times of India's Pankaj Doval, raised alarms within India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). Officials expressed deep concern over the chatbot's content moderation practices, particularly its potential violations of the IT Intermediary Rules 2021, which could subject X to legal repercussions.
Complicating matters further, Grok erroneously listed Indian filmma...
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