Musk says Grok will erase errors and rebuild a cleaner version of human knowledge, but critics say it sounds a little too much like rewriting history.
Elon Musk has never been shy about disrupting established systems, and now he says it's time to overhaul humanity's collective knowledge, one chatbot at a time.
In a late-night post on X (formerly Twitter) Friday, Musk announced plans to retrain his artificial intelligence platform, Grok, using a rewritten version of what he called the "entire corpus of human knowledge."
“We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors," Musk wrote on X. "Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data."
The goal: to strip out what he deems inaccurate or biased information and build a cleaner, corrected foundation.
With Grok, Musk's xAI is trying to offer what he views as a less filtered, more "truth-focused" alternative. In a follow-up post, he asked users to reply with examples of "divisive facts" that could help retrain the model.
Critics aren't convinced.
NYU professor emeritus Gary Marcus, a longtime skeptic of AI hype, compared Musk's move to something out of Orwell’s 1984. "You couldn’t get Grok to align with your own personal beliefs, so you are going to rewrite history to make it conform to your views," Marcus wrote on X.
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